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

From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: May 23, 2006, 05:35 UTC
Message-ID: <E1FiPIu-0003cJ-03@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vu07h8rzr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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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?

I do not know if I understand you correctly, do you want to leave out the -u part of the patch or the whole patch?

Well, anyway, here the reasons for this patch:
- Working in a git repository with a lot of empty directories is
  annoying, because all of them show up in git status even though they
  cannot be added. With --no-empty-directories they are hidden.
- If there is a directory which may be added because it is quite
  useful to have the -u option to see what is in there to add (without
  using ls path/to/directory).