From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:59:39 GMT
Subject: Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list
Message-ID: <7vaaugrlqs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100310T203316-38@post.gmane.org>

MALAISE Pascal <malaise@magic.fr> writes:

> Many projects are organized so that the result of compilation is mixed with
> sources.
> It would be very useful to configure git gui so that untracked files are not
> listed in the un-staged list.
> I have patched git gui, function rescan_stage2, line 1414 to do so:
>   # set fd_lo [eval git_read ls-files --others -z $ls_others]
>   set fd_lo [eval git_read ls-files -z $ls_others]

Shouldn't this line instead be running this:

    ls-files --others --exclude-standard -z $ls_others

so that it would use the usual .gitignore mechanism?