From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darrin Thompson Subject: git-ls-files -o no recurse? Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:51:32 -0500 Message-ID: <1136400692.5919.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 04 19:51:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuDja-0004lp-7p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:51:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965266AbWADSvj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:51:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965267AbWADSvj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:51:39 -0500 Received: from zealot.progeny.com ([216.37.46.162]:21481 "EHLO morimoto.progeny.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965266AbWADSvi (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:51:38 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (morimoto.progeny.com [192.168.1.53]) by morimoto.progeny.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A506378E for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:51:32 -0500 (EST) To: Git Mailing List X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: git-ls-files -o reports _all_ the unknown files it finds in a work area. Subversion and probably other systems "simply ignore all the files and directories inside an unknown directory and just note the directory as unknown." (A quote from my porcelain's mailing list.) I'd like to make this friendly behavior the default in my porcelain. Unfortunately, getting the same result from a porcelain requires implementing a non-trivial algorithm to discover common prefixes, worry about performance on large projects, etc. Would it be hard to make git-ls-files optionally do this? -- Darrin