Re: [BUG] (minor) "git status ." reports added files as untracked

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Feb 5, 2008, 06:08 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy7a00wby.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ihkjtvg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> It is intended.
>
> "git status $args" was designed as "show me what happens if I
> ran 'git commit $args' now", and because a commit is a whole
> tree operation,

I don't understand the point: "git commit" doesn't care about untracked files. So if "git status" would really only "show me what happens if I run git commit now", it wouldn't show untracked files, at all.

Showing untracked files is status is IMHO a good thing, it helps me to see if I forget to "git add" something. But if I explicitely ask for a limited commit, I really mean I don't care about what happens outside the directory I'm commiting.

-- 
Matthieu