From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:48:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wt-status: Show ignored files in untracked dirs
Message-ID: <20121227034859.GA20817@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vip7omd8c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 06:37:55PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > When looking for ignored files, we do not recurse into untracked
> > directory, and simply consider the directory ignored status.
> 
> When asked to show ignored ones, instead of listing all ignored
> files in such a directory, we just say "everything in this directory
> is ignored"?
> 
> That sounds like a more desirable behaviour, than listing everything
> there, at least to me, but perhaps I am missing something.

I do not use this feature myself, but I would think that it should
respect the same DIR_SHOW_OTHER_DIRECTORIES flag (or a parallel flag)
that we already hook into "--untracked={all,normal}".

IOW, given:

  git init
  mkdir untracked ignored
  >untracked/file
  >ignored/file
  echo ignored >.git/info/exclude

I would expect:

  $ git status --short --ignored --untracked=normal
  ?? untracked/
  !! ignored/

  $ git status --short --ignored --untracked=all
  ?? untracked/file
  !! ignored/file

I do not know if anybody cares about the distinction, but optionally we
could give --ignored its own selector, like:

  $ git status --short --ignored=all --untracked=normal
  ?? untracked/
  !! ignored/file

where obviously it would default to "none" (whereas untracked defaults
to "normal"). But the behavior with Antoine's patch is:

  $ git status --short --ignored --untracked=normal
  ?? untracked/
  !! ignored

  $ git status --short --ignored --untracked=all
  ?? untracked/file
  !! ignored

which seems wrong to me for two reasons:

  1. It does not recurse for ignored but untracked entries. Neither does
     the current code, but I think it should.

  2. It loses the trailing slash from the ignored directory in both
     cases (which is printed by the current code).

-Peff