Re: git-gui disagrees with git status

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 10, 2010, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20100510213926.GA7156@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <y2m3b1db1e51005101432je9e75a53vbb3781fa33aa83e7@mail.gmail.com>

Bill Winspur <bwinspur@gmail.com> wrote:

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> #
> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> #    .metadata/
> bwinspur@elm:~/ca.wydv.workspaces/008-leaning-group/git-lrng-wksp$
> =====
> 
> which is what I expected: my project folders are tracked, and
> .metadata/ is untracked.
> 
> - now I bring up git gui and it shows all the files under .metadata/ as
> unstaged changes, which conflicts with git status, and may be due to a
> git-gui bug

Its more a feature.

git-gui shows all untracked files, recursively expanding any directories which contain untracked files. git status collapses them up. If you don't want to track a directory, maybe you should configure it in one of the many gitignore locations so neither git status nor git gui shows it.

-- 
Shawn.