Re: git-ls-new-files & make patch, pull, etc.

From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@linuxmachines.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2005, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <431DFF30.7010009@linuxmachines.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1x4lz118.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 08/22/2005 10:15 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff Carr <jcarr@linuxmachines.com> writes:
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> 
>>Something simple like the perl script at the bottom would be useful for
>>showing files that haven't been added via git-update-cache --add already.
> 
> 
> If I am not mistaken, you just reinvented:
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>     $ git ls-files --others
> 
> in a very expensive way.  Notice your `find . -type f` that does
> not prune .git directory upfront.
> 
> Also you may want to take a look at:
> 
>     $ git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude

Yes, you are right -- I did reinvent the above poorly :)

I also was using a perl script to parse the output of git-whatchanged to set the datestamps on the files to the last modified time. If I remember correctly, there was some threads at the beginning of git about how datestamps were not accurate so there was no point in setting them(?) Or maybe I mis-understood. In any case, sometimes it is useful for me because I just want to look at what files I changed today or yesterday or something to that effect. Sometimes in the kernel/Documentation directories it is useful because you can see what documentation was done/changed this year. Sometimes that's nice if you are looking for new things you might not know much about; recently I was digging around in the I2C stuff to try to figure out if I could read the right temperature sensor on the smbus on a machine. Anyway, I'll just use that but perhaps there is also a "correct" way to keep timestamps?

BTW, for what it's worth, you can't package git under debian sarge because asciidoc doesn't support "-b xhtml11". I pulled it from sid and it packaged it fine. Just an FYI. I emailed the asciidoc maintainer for what it's worth.

Thanks a lot, Jeff