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Re: [PATCH] Document ls-files -t as obsolete.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 14, 2010, 14:39 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
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> The behavior of "git ls-files -t" is very misleading (see
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/126516 and
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144394/focus=144397
> for examples of mislead users) and badly documented, hence we point the
> users to superior alternatives.
I am no entirely happy with this patch.

If all your scripted Porcelain wants to see is "what are the paths I might want to run 'git add' on?", you do not want to run diff twice (which is what "status" does); you would say "ls-files -t -m -o --exclude-standard", instead. The alternative is not even superiour in this case.

Having said that, I personally don't think of any other combination of flags with which "ls-files -t" is useful.

If there are parts of the documentation that are misleading, perhaps that is what your patch should be fixing instead, no?

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  1. Document ls-files -t as obsolete.Matthieu Moy, Apr 14, 2010
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