Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2015, #06; Sun, 22)

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 22.02.2015 22:41:
>
>> [Stalled]
>>
>> * nd/list-files (2015-02-09) 21 commits
>>  . t3080: tests for git-list-files
>>  . list-files: -M aka diff-cached
>>  . list-files -F: show submodules with the new indicator '&'
>>  . list-files: add -F/--classify
>>  . list-files: show directories as well as files
>>  . list-files: do not show duplicate cached entries
>>  . list-files: sort output and remove duplicates
>>  . list-files: add -t back
>>  . list-files: add -1 short for --no-column
>>  . list-files: add -R/--recursive short for --max-depth=-1
>>  . list-files: -u does not imply showing stages
>>  . list-files: make alias 'ls' default to 'list-files'
>>  . list-files: a user friendly version of ls-files and more
>>  . ls-files: support --max-depth
>>  . ls-files: add --column
>>  . ls-files: add --color to highlight file names
>>  . ls-files: buffer full item in strbuf before printing
>>  . ls_colors.c: highlight submodules like directories
>>  . ls_colors.c: add a function to color a file name
>>  . ls_colors.c: parse color.ls.* from config file
>>  . ls_colors.c: add $LS_COLORS parsing code
>>
>>  A new "git list-files" Porcelain command, "ls-files" with bells and
>>  whistles.
>>
>>  No comments?  No reviews?  No interests?
>
> I like the result a lot (I admit - I like colors in terminals).
> Since the aim is a user facing command I'm wondering whether the status
> symbols really should be those from "ls-files" or rather those from
> "status -s" (and diff --name-files). (Yes, that would require two chars.)
>
> status, status -s and the like are in an ordinary user's tool box.
> ls-files isn't, at least not with "-t", which we even mark as deprecated.

Noted. Will do.

> That makes me wonder, though, how difficult it would be to
> wt_status_collect_unchanged() and to leverage the status machinery
> rather than ls-files.

Hmm.. let me think about it. In a way this git-list-files is like an
alternative to git-status, perhaps you're right..
-- 
Duy