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

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, V?in? J?rvel wrote:

On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:55, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, V?in? J?rvel wrote:

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I also think that maintaining a proper .gitignore is imporant, and 
more productive than using --only-tracked instead. But when I have 
cruft that can't be put in .gitignore, or it would ignore files that 
are supposed to be shown and tracked, I use --only-tracked.

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.

I haven't used that option, do I understand correctly, that with that 
option, you should provide another exclusion file? That would remove the 
dynamic ability of --only-tracked.

-X takes a filename, -x a pattern.

Hth,
Dscho