From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:26:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] (minor) "git status ." reports added files as untracked
Message-ID: <7v7ihkjtvg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqtzko8ws2.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

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.