Re: [PATCH] git status: print files under untracked dir if -a is given

Yasushi SHOJI [off-list ref] writes:

git status: print files under untracked dir if -a is given

git status (git-commit.sh) currently doesn't show files under
untracked directory.  this is inconvenient when adding many files
under new directory.

this patch change its behavior to show files under untracked directory
if option --all is given.

Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <redacted>

I do not quite understand your rationale behind linking -a and
"show untracked" behaviour.  In many cases, after modifying
multiple files "commit -a" is the preferred way to make commits
for people who keep their tree clean (meaning, they do not leave
unrelated changes to their working tree files), and I suspect
your change would clutter their commit log buffer with unrelated
files they did not ask to see.

At least this would make things somewhat unpleasant for me to
use, since I do "commit -a" often and I have my random notes
files under ./+trash subdirectory of the main project (yes, I
know I could add /+trash to .gitignore).

We have something different but perhaps related by Matthias
Lederhofer to add "git status --untracked" since you did this
patch.

        commit 443f8338b9e248353a7095a1096684f1ed106c66
        Author: Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref]
        Date:   Mon May 22 23:02:06 2006 +0200

Does it solve your problem?