Re: [PATCH] git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

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Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted>
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Actually, if it was not about backward compatibility, I'd just replace
-o, --other with -u, --untracked and talk about "untracked" everywhere,
but compatibility matters more than consistancy for plumbing.

"ls-files -u" talks about (u)nmerged files.

(forgot this, so -u is even less an option)

What consistency did you have in mind?

I found no place outside git ls-files where Git talks about "other"
files. Everywhere else, it talks about Untracked files.

As for the -u option, git status/commit -u[mode] is for Untracked
files, not unmerged ones.

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Matthieu