Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > You can see it as a feature that you can use to check what would happen > if you stopped ignoring the directory from the higher level. With a patch > to always cd-up and use pathspec, that will become impossible. I hate to say this, but I have a feeling that status might be what needs to be fixed instead. It isn't hard to imagine a use case where you don't want to be bothered by crufts in lower level directories when you are looking at the bigger picture (e.g. at the top of the hierarchy) but when you go to individual subdirectory you would want to see them. -- 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