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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-gui disagrees with git status
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 01:27:28 -0500
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Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
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Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>>> Its more a feature.
>>>
>>> git-gui shows all untracked files, recursively expanding any
>>> directories which contain untracked files.  git status collapses
>>> them up.
[...]
> Oh, it *is* good behavior. Otherwise, it would not be possible to sta=
ge a
> file that resides in a currently untracked directory; you would have =
to
> fall back to 'git add' on the command line.

I would say rather it is the best we have.  Much better would be to
display untracked directories using a tree view (like gitk=E2=80=99s
treeview), starting out collapsed[1].

Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/572805