From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 01:11:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git status: ignore empty directories (because they cannot be added)
Message-ID: <7vu07h8rzr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1FiHXS-0008MC-LB@moooo.ath.cx>

Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:

> 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?