From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:11:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git ls-files handles paths differently in Windows and Mac (probably Linux)
Message-ID: <4CB45E86.2030703@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C33A244-2449-4A3C-A8B5-2060CE61EE04@jetbrains.com>

Am 10/12/2010 14:14, schrieb Kirill Likhodedov:
> 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