From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Bill Winspur <bwinspur@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-gui disagrees with git status
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 01:27:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100511062728.GA29654@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE8F1DB.2060205@viscovery.net>
Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>>> Its more a feature.
>>>
>>> git-gui shows all untracked files, recursively expanding any
>>> directories which contain untracked files. git status collapses
>>> them up.
[...]
> Oh, it *is* good behavior. Otherwise, it would not be possible to stage a
> file that resides in a currently untracked directory; you would have to
> fall back to 'git add' on the command line.
I would say rather it is the best we have. Much better would be to
display untracked directories using a tree view (like gitk’s
treeview), starting out collapsed[1].
Jonathan
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/572805
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-10 21:32 git-gui disagrees with git status Bill Winspur
2010-05-10 21:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-05-11 5:41 ` Miles Bader
2010-05-11 5:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-11 6:27 ` Miles Bader
2010-05-11 6:27 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
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[not found] ` <20100511140458.GA3132@progeny.tock>
[not found] ` <AANLkTilDmQBIq2xJCx_t5Qt15xXFK_3JRoiI6Y_Y8F-2@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-11 14:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
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