[BUG] (minor) "git status ." reports added files as untracked
- From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
- Date
- Feb 4, 2008, 17:19 UTC
- Message-ID
- <vpqtzko8ws2.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Hi,
I have a minor bug with git (head of master today): Briefly, added files in a toplevel directory show up as "untracked" for "git status ." in a subdirectory. See below to reproduce.
Indeed, I've always considered the fact that "git status ." reports untracked files outside the current directory as a bug, but I'm not sure whether this is intended or not. If not, then not looking for untracked files oustide the directory when doing a limited "status" would be a fix.
No time for a patch, appologize :-(.
/tmp/test$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
/tmp/test$ mkdir subdir
/tmp/test$ touch file1
/tmp/test$ git add file1
/tmp/test$ touch subdir/file2
/tmp/test$ cd subdir/
/tmp/test/subdir$ git add file2
/tmp/test/subdir$ git status .
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
# new file: file2
#
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# ../file1 <------------------- this one
shouldn't be here
/tmp/test/subdir$ git status
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
# new file: ../file1
# new file: file2
#Regards,
-- Matthieu