Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > As a person who rarely, if ever, uses git-ls-files, I'm having trouble > understanding why de-duping isn't the default behavior when the > listing is otherwise not annotated (that is, when -t/-v/-f/--debug are > not used). It was because the implementor of the original was bold enough to say "if it hurts, don't do it" to those who try to combine flags that may produce overlapping result that lead to duplicates.
