From: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:39:40 GMT
Subject: Re: On "git status"
Message-ID: <49F1CF2F.16472.640F8D0@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <49F1A51C.40704@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On 24 Apr 2009 at 13:40, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:24:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm unsure it exists already, but "git status" doesn't display the tracked files. 
> > Would it make sense to have those reported with a "git status -v" (for verbose)?
> > (You know: I'm thinking about "cvs status"...)
> 
> "git status" is basically "git commit --dry-run", which is different
> from "cvs/svn/hg status".
> 
> "git diff --name-status" gives output similar to those.
> 
> "git ls-files" allows to list all tracked files.

OK, so many commands to learn.... Still shouldn't "git status --help" be able to 
display some help text (other than "man page not found")?

Regards,
Ulrich