From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: [PATCH] Document ls-files -t as obsolete. Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:45:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1271252704-21739-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Cc: Matthieu Moy To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 14 15:55:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O233o-0004Ca-3s for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:55:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755370Ab0DNNzN (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:55:13 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:38773 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751597Ab0DNNzM (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:55:12 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3EDeDOo022216 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:40:13 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O22tv-0003T7-BN; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:45:07 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O22tv-0005fC-8t; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:45:07 +0200 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.3.299.gb22d9.dirty X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:40:14 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: o3EDeDOo022216 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1271857214.423@eWIuOAwSH2MJEt2xwtd96A Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- 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