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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> status, status -s and the like are in an ordinary user's tool box.
> ls-files isn't, at least not with "-t", which we even mark as deprecated.
>
> That makes me wonder, though, how difficult it would be to
> wt_status_collect_unchanged() and to leverage the status machinery
> rather than ls-files.

Good point.  wt-status feels like a much better infrastructure to
build on than "ls-files -t", which should die ;-).  Especially if
the command is interested in showing the state of the working tree
files relative to the tree of HEAD, as "ls-files" is purely between
the index and the working tree.