From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] Document ls-files -t as obsolete.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:45:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271252704-21739-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> (raw)
The behavior of "git ls-files -t" is very misleading (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/126516 and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144394/focus=144397
for examples of mislead users) and badly documented, hence we point the
users to superior alternatives.
The feature is marked as "obsolete" but not "scheduled for removal" since
it's a plumbing command, scripts might use it, and Git testsuite already
uses it to test the state of the index.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 3521637..7b86bb5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ OPTIONS
with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
-t::
+ This feature is deprecated. Authors of scripts should use
+ linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain`, and users can look at
+ linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1]
+ `--name-status` for alternatives.
+
Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
a space) at the start of each line:
H:: cached
--
1.7.0.3.299.gb22d9.dirty
next reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 13:45 Matthieu Moy [this message]
2010-04-14 14:39 ` [PATCH] Document ls-files -t as obsolete Junio C Hamano
2010-04-14 14:47 ` Daniel Grace
2010-04-14 14:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-14 14:47 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-04-14 14:58 ` Matthieu Moy
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