From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:43:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-find-new-files to spot files added to the tree, but not the repository Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050723074219.GB3255@mythryan2.michonline.com> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > Add git-find-new-files to find files that are in the tree, but not checked into the repository. > > Most users will probably want to "make clean" before using this for real > significant changes, as it does such a good job that it finds binaries that > just got built. You really want to run "file" on the files. We almost certainly don't want to add binary executables, object files etc etc to the tree, so why even show them? You should also filter the list by the "ignore" file. And I'd suggest ignoring dot-files by default, for example (maybe add a "-a" flag to disable that, the same way "ls" does). Linus