From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:45:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug in git-completion.sh
Message-ID: <7vskag1r5o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100108164132.GA6171@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Well, yes, if you wanted to compare apples to apples. But actually, my
> point in showing "status" at all was to note that Michael's statement
> that they would be the same is wrong.
>
> But just looking at the ls-files output, do you not agree that there is
> a bug?

If I agreed, I wouldn't have suggested _you_ to cd up and use pathspec,
but instead would have suggested to patch ls-files to make it do so for
you.

You can see it as a feature that you can use to check what would happen
if you stopped ignoring the directory from the higher level.  With a patch
to always cd-up and use pathspec, that will become impossible.

Maybe nobody needs such a feature (I don't), in which case we can declare
it as a bug.  But I wasn't ready to do so myself when I wrote the message
you are responding to, and I still am not.