From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git-ls-files -o no recurse? Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:34:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <1136400692.5919.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7vk6ddq8x2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1136658207.6141.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7vace7khbi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Darrin Thompson , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 07 20:35:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvJqM-00079b-Ab for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:35:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161030AbWAGTei (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:34:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161028AbWAGTei (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:34:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:40108 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161030AbWAGTeh (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:34:37 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k07JYRDZ026813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:34:28 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k07JYOQf021847; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:34:25 -0800 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vace7khbi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.64__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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