Bill Winspur <bwinspur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > # > # Untracked files: > # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > # > # .metadata/ > bwinspur@elm:~/ca.wydv.workspaces/008-leaning-group/git-lrng-wksp$ > ===== > > which is what I expected: my project folders are tracked, and > .metadata/ is untracked. > > - now I bring up git gui and it shows all the files under .metadata/ as > unstaged changes, which conflicts with git status, and may be due to a > git-gui bug Its more a feature. git-gui shows all untracked files, recursively expanding any directories which contain untracked files. git status collapses them up. If you don't want to track a directory, maybe you should configure it in one of the many gitignore locations so neither git status nor git gui shows it. -- Shawn. -- 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