Re: [PATCH] git status: ignore empty directories (because they cannot be added)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 23, 2006, 01:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vu07h8rzr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1FiHXS-0008MC-LB@moooo.ath.cx>

Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:

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> and a new option -u / --untracked-files to show files in untracked
> directories.
>
> ---
> A few things I'm not sure about:
> - Should there be another option to disable --no-empty-directory?

I am not sure about this. We used to show everything in a directory full of untracked directory, which was distracting and that was the reason we added --directory there. Maybe it would be less confusing if we just updated the message

	    print "#\n# Untracked files:\n";
	    print "#   (use \"git add\" to add to commit)\n";
	    print "#\n";

to say "use 'git add' on these files and files in these directories you wish to add", or something silly like that, without this patch?