From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:39:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <0748D6C4-C72F-4271-9372-3EBFC249FFE2@pp.inet.fi> Hi, On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, V?in? J?rvel wrote: > 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. -X takes a filename, -x a pattern. Hth, Dscho