Re: git-ls-files -l

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> I think it would be easy to add '-l' also to git-ls-files. Please
> remember to provide size only for blobs, as provoding size for trees
> would make it harder to change to future packv4, where tree objects
> would be stored deconstructed.

Personally, more than "git ls-files -l", I've occasionally wanted a real 
"git ls" that really looks more like "ls". That includes:

 - turning a list of files in a subdirectory into a "directory" entry 
   (which is not very natural for "git ls-files" as an index operation, 
   since the index is fundamentally flat).

 - yes, adding "-l" as an option, but really showing the stat information. 
   Right now, you can do "git ls-files --stage", and it will show a kind 
   of extended information, but while it shows the mode, it doesn't show 
   the owner/timestamp/etc parts of the index, and those are sometimes 
   interesting.

Btw, the "ls-tree -l" format is not nice. Don't use it as a basis 
to pattern "ls -l" (or if you want to just extend ls-tree, whatever).

			Linus