git-gui shows untracked files as "changed but not updated"

git-gui shows untracked files as "changed but not updated"

[Sergio Callegari]

A short mail just to check if this is the intended behaviour...

Sergio

Re: git-gui shows untracked files as "changed but not updated"

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Sergio Callegari <scallegari@arces.unibo.it> wrote:
> A short mail just to check if this is the intended behaviour...

Yes.  But it may not make sense.  As you may have thought, and why
this email started...

Basically it was laziness.  Originally git-gui used the current
layout (2 file lists) but the meaning of the lists was "existing
files" and "untracked files".  This turned out to really be hard to
use, especially when you are trying to work through merge conflicts.
Even _I_ had a tough time making use of that UI, and I knew what
I was doing.  ;-)

Refactoring the UI to its current design made a lot of sense, and
made git-gui very useful during merges.  But it left the untracked
files out in the wind with no place to show them.  Adding a new
file list was too much screen space (in my mind) and putting them
in the left ("Changes To Be Committed") is way wrong (as they won't
be committed by default), so the right list it was.

-- 
Shawn.