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From: Daniel Grace <negativeview@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document ls-files -t as obsolete.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:47:49 -0500
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> If all your scripted Porcelain wants to see is "what are the paths I might
> want to run 'git add' on?", you do not want to run diff twice (which is
> what "status" does); you would say "ls-files -t -m -o --exclude-standard",
> instead. The alternative is not even superiour in this case.

Why -m? I have a script that attempts to ask just this question and I
don't use -m. Reading the documentation, I'm not sure why I would. In
what cases would I get wrong information without -m? For the record, I
also don't use -t, though using -t in this case does make sense to me,
I just apparently didn't notice that bit of the documentation when
writing that feature.

Daniel
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