> > and a new option -u / --untracked-files to show files in untracked > > directories. > > > > --- > > A few things I'm not sure about: > > - Should there be another option to disable --no-empty-directory? > > I am not sure about this. We used to show everything in a > directory full of untracked directory, which was distracting and > that was the reason we added --directory there. Maybe it would > be less confusing if we just updated the message > > print "#\n# Untracked files:\n"; > print "# (use \"git add\" to add to commit)\n"; > print "#\n"; > > to say "use 'git add' on these files and files in these > directories you wish to add", or something silly like that, > without this patch? I do not know if I understand you correctly, do you want to leave out the -u part of the patch or the whole patch? Well, anyway, here the reasons for this patch: - Working in a git repository with a lot of empty directories is annoying, because all of them show up in git status even though they cannot be added. With --no-empty-directories they are hidden. - If there is a directory which may be added because it is quite useful to have the -u option to see what is in there to add (without using ls path/to/directory). - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html