From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:40:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands.
Message-ID: <vpqps1dyxbu.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708241154410.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.

That's equivalent feature-wise, but a bit slower performance-wise (the
proposed patch skips file listing totally). But since the use-case for
it is not the common case, it probably doesn't matter (and in case,
it's possible to hardcode an optimisation if the pattern is "*").

-- 
Matthieu