Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Would it not be better to imitate the "-x" and "-X" options of ls-files, > then? You could achieve the effect you desire by "git status -x \*" > then. That's equivalent feature-wise, but a bit slower performance-wise (the proposed patch skips file listing totally). But since the use-case for it is not the common case, it probably doesn't matter (and in case, it's possible to hardcode an optimisation if the pattern is "*"). -- Matthieu - 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