Väinö Järvelä <v@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The way I see the flag used is: A user runs "git status", sees that > there is too much untracked files and not enough scrollback, so he > runs "git status --only-tracked" to filter the results. Why? Just set up .gitignore once then (1) you do not have to worry about them ever again, and (2) you _will_ still be able to notice if you accidentally added more cruft, or more importantly, if you forgot to tell an important file to git. I think the latter is more important point. If you train a naive user to use --only-tracked to ignore "Untracked" list, you are doing him or her a great disservice. Mistake to forget "git add" a new file before commiting will bound to happen. - 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
