Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> >> --- >> Actually, if it was not about backward compatibility, I'd just replace >> -o, --other with -u, --untracked and talk about "untracked" everywhere, >> but compatibility matters more than consistancy for plumbing. > > "ls-files -u" talks about (u)nmerged files. (forgot this, so -u is even less an option) > What consistency did you have in mind? I found no place outside git ls-files where Git talks about "other" files. Everywhere else, it talks about Untracked files. As for the -u option, git status/commit -u[mode] is for Untracked files, not unmerged ones. -- Matthieu -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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