Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands.

> On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:55, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, V?in? J?rvel wrote:
> > > I also think that maintaining a proper .gitignore is imporant, and 
> > > more productive than using --only-tracked instead. But when I have 
> > > cruft that can't be put in .gitignore, or it would ignore files that 
> > > are supposed to be shown and tracked, I use --only-tracked.
> > 
> > Would it not be better to imitate the "-x" and "-X" options of 
> > ls-files, then?  You could achieve the effect you desire by "git 
> > status -x \*" then.
> 
> I haven't used that option, do I understand correctly, that with that 
> option, you should provide another exclusion file? That would remove the 
> dynamic ability of --only-tracked.