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Re: git ls-files handles paths differently in Windows and Mac (probably Linux)

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Oct 12, 2010, 13:11 UTC
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Am 10/12/2010 14:14, schrieb Kirill Likhodedov:
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> I want to see which files were changed in the specific directory of my
> working tree, so I call ls-files:
>> git ls-files -douvm --exclude-standard -- MYDIR
> 
> On Mac (and probably on Linux) git inspects the content of MYDIR and
> gives me the status of not-indexed changes in this directory. On
> Windows git gives the same result (only changes in MYDIR), but it scans
> the whole repository!

On Linux, this scans the whole repository, too. Therefore, at least the Windows version should not be *that* wrong. ;-)

-- Hannes
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