From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Darrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-ls-files -o no recurse?
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:34:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601071131570.3169@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vace7khbi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> I have been unsure about the name "--directory", like you said.
Well, I didn't like "--directory" either, but couldn't come up with
anything better. How about just "--no-recurse", which is not technically
accurate (we always recurse into directories we know about), but might be
more understandable.
The reason I called it "--directory" was that it would talk about
directories that it doesn't know about (as opposed to individual files it
doesn't know about). So "--other --directory" kind of makes sense if you
read it that way ("show files and directories we don't know about").
But yeah, it's not a great name.
Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 18:51 git-ls-files -o no recurse? Darrin Thompson
2006-01-04 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 17:15 ` Darrin Thompson
2006-01-05 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-06 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 18:20 ` Darrin Thompson
2006-01-07 18:23 ` Darrin Thompson
2006-01-07 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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