From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: [PATCH v3] Document ls-files -t as semi-obsolete. Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:11:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1280265073-23037-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> References: Cc: Matthieu Moy To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 27 23:12:33 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 1OdrRv-0007At-Ul for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:12:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753107Ab0G0VM1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:12:27 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:32949 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751330Ab0G0VM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:12:26 -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 o6RL9chS024677 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:09:38 +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 1OdrQo-0001xL-NA; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:11:22 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdrQo-000609-KK; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:11:22 +0200 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.25.g50ec3 In-Reply-To: X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:09:38 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: o6RL9chS024677 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1280869780.24408@LGG6ieHoA6HDeP7SW/0big 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 "semi-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 --- Should fix the formatting issue. Finally, I also added a mention of diff-tree --name-status too. Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 3521637..710e87a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -106,8 +106,16 @@ OPTIONS with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense. -t:: - Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by - a space) at the start of each line: + This feature is semi-deprecated. For scripting purpose, + linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain` and + linkgit:git-diff-tree[1] `--name-status` are almost always + superior alternatives, and users should look at + linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1] + `--name-status` for more user-friendly alternatives. ++ +This option identifies the file status with the following tags (followed by +a space) at the start of each line: + H:: cached S:: skip-worktree M:: unmerged -- 1.7.2.25.g50ec3