Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands.

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] 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 "*").

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Matthieu