On 08/10, Jameson Miller wrote: > Teach Git to optionally show ignored directories when showing all > untracked files. The git status command exposes the options to report > ignored and/or untracked files. However, when reporting all untracked > files (--untracked-files=all), all individual ignored files are reported > as well. It is not currently possible to get the reporting behavior of > the --ignored flag, while also reporting all untracked files. This > change exposes a flag to report all untracked files while not showing > individual files in ignored directories. > > Motivation: > Our application (Visual Studio) needs all untracked files listed > individually, but does not need all ignored files listed individually. > Reporting all ignored files can affect the time it takes for status > to run. For a representative repository, here are some measurements > showing a large perf improvement for this scenario: > > | Command | Reported ignored entries | Time (s) | > | ------- | ------------------------ | -------- | > | 1 | 0 | 1.3 | > | 2 | 1024 | 4.2 | > | 3 | 174904 | 7.5 | > | 4 | 1046 | 1.6 | > > Commands: > 1) status > 2) status --ignored > 3) status --ignored --untracked-files=all > 4) status --ignored --untracked-files=all --show-ignored-directory > > This changes exposes a --show-ignored-directory flag to the git status > command. This flag is utilized when running git status with the > --ignored and --untracked-files options to not list ignored individual > ignored files contained in directories that match an ignore pattern. I can't help feeling that there is a better way express this with a better UI. I'm not saying this is wrong, I'm just not sure how --show-ignored-directory would work when not paired with --ignored and --untracked-files. Does it require --ignored to also be given? > > Part of the perf improvement comes from the tweak to > read_directory_recursive to stop scanning the file system after it > encounters the first file. When a directory is ignored, all it needs to > determine is if the directory is empty or not. The logic currently keeps > scanning the file system until it finds an untracked file. However, as > the directory is ignored, all the contained contents are also marked > excluded. For ignored directories that contain a large number of files, > this can take some time. > > Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Brandon Williams
