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Re: git-ls-files -o no recurse?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jan 7, 2006, 19:34 UTC
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I have been unsure about the name "--directory", like you said.

Well, I didn't like "--directory" either, but couldn't come up with anything better. How about just "--no-recurse", which is not technically accurate (we always recurse into directories we know about), but might be more understandable.

The reason I called it "--directory" was that it would talk about directories that it doesn't know about (as opposed to individual files it doesn't know about). So "--other --directory" kind of makes sense if you read it that way ("show files and directories we don't know about").

But yeah, it's not a great name.
		Linus
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