Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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 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.
Ok. I hoped there would be an easy way to know that all pathspecs
exactly matched a tracked file, and thus no untracked files can
possibly change the listing.
But you convinced me that it doesn't fit into the current scheme, and
it doesn't really matter...
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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