Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> If it's not too much work, it would be nice to somehow detect if -u
> can have any influence at all. For example,
>
> $ git status bar
> # Not currently on any branch.
> nothing to commit (use -u to show untracked files)
>
> is a bit misleading if 'bar' is tracked because adding a -u won't make
> any difference.
It is an issue shared with the original "git status". Running
git init
>file
git add file
git commit -m initial
git status -uno
will give the same "use -u to show" message.
The thing is, "use -u to show" is because you told git not to check if
there is any untracked file. Whoever added -uno wanted not to run the
recursive read_directory() to find them.
The message says "you told me not to check about untracked files, so I can
not show you any, because I did not check; if you want, please use -u to
tell me to check so that I can show them to you".
It is not about "we know that there are untracked files but you told me
not to show it, so I am not telling". We simply do not know at the point
we give that message. In other words, conditional removal of that message
is fundamentally incompatible with the use of -uno.
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