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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: git-gui disagrees with git status
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Am 5/11/2010 7:41, schrieb Miles Bader:
> "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.
> 
> Wait, why is this a feature, exactly...?
> 
> It may be well known that git-gui works this way, but that doesn't make
> it good behavior for the user.

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.

-- Hannes