On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > David Symonds wrote: >> On Nov 8, 2007 10:19 AM, Brian Gernhardt <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> However, Dave's suggestion of altering git-status output to be >>> relative to (but not limited by) CWD has merit. Too bad I don't have >>> time to work on it right now. >> >> I am happy to hack on this if there's not widespread revolt against the concept. >> > > I'd definitely like that feature, but I wonder how many people will run > "git commit -a" in a subdir after seeing only what they want to see in the > output, and then accidentally committing junk somewhere else in the repo. > > So perhaps git-commit -a should also be path-delimited, but where would we > end up then? It might be better to just let git-status accept a path > delimiter and let the path delimiter default to current work-dir. > I agree that 'git status' should show the *whole* tree and if it will work in subdirectories with 'git status .' or 'git status Documentation', it would be a nice UI improvement. But please don't make it always show only the current subdir. -Peter - 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
