From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:04:11 GMT
Subject: Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls
Message-ID: <7vr4jqkb9g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <513911B3.7010903@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
> index d6dd3df..6a5ba11 100644
> --- a/builtin/commit.c
> +++ b/builtin/commit.c
> @@ -1158,6 +1158,8 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	unsigned char sha1[20];
>  	static struct option builtin_status_options[] = {
>  		OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("be verbose")),
> +		OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "changed-only", &s.check_changed_only,
> +			    N_("Ignore untracked files. Check if files known to git are modified")),

Doesn't this make one wonder why a separate bit and implementation
is necessary to say "I am not interested in untracked files" when
"-uno" option is already there?