# [PATCH] git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other 3 messages from 2009-08-06 to 2009-08-07. Participants: Matthieu Moy, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20440 ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-08-06 15:11 Subject: [PATCH] git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other Message-ID: <1249571508-21897-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1249571508-21897-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy%40imag.fr ``` Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy --- Actually, if it was not about backward compatibility, I'd just replace -o, --other with -u, --untracked and talk about "untracked" everywhere, but compatibility matters more than consistancy for plumbing. Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 057a021..021066e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS -o:: --others:: - Show other files in the output + Show other (i.e. untracked) files in the output -i:: --ignored:: -- 1.6.4.55.gc63c6.dirty ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2009-08-06 20:44 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other Message-ID: <7vmy6cfz9j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vmy6cfz9j.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <1249571508-21897-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> ``` Matthieu Moy writes: > Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy > --- > Actually, if it was not about backward compatibility, I'd just replace > -o, --other with -u, --untracked and talk about "untracked" everywhere, > but compatibility matters more than consistancy for plumbing. "ls-files -u" talks about (u)nmerged files. What consistency did you have in mind? ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-08-07 08:15 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqprb8xcoq.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <7vmy6cfz9j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` Junio C Hamano writes: > Matthieu Moy writes: > >> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy >> --- >> Actually, if it was not about backward compatibility, I'd just replace >> -o, --other with -u, --untracked and talk about "untracked" everywhere, >> but compatibility matters more than consistancy for plumbing. > > "ls-files -u" talks about (u)nmerged files. (forgot this, so -u is even less an option) > What consistency did you have in mind? I found no place outside git ls-files where Git talks about "other" files. Everywhere else, it talks about Untracked files. As for the -u option, git status/commit -u[mode] is for Untracked files, not unmerged ones. -- Matthieu ```