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Re: [BUG] (minor) "git status ." reports added files as untracked

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2008, 21:26 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> Indeed, I've always considered the fact that "git status ." reports
> untracked files outside the current directory as a bug, but I'm not
> sure whether this is intended or not.
It is intended.

"git status $args" was designed as "show me what happens if I ran 'git commit $args' now", and because a commit is a whole tree operation,

It is a different matter if the intention matches the expectation you picked up from somewhere on how "scm status" should work (it most likely doesn't). It also is a different matter if it is justifiable to have such a mismatch.

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