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The use case in mind is --max-depth=0 to stop recursion. With this we can do
git config --global alias.ls 'ls-files --column --color --max-depth=0'
and have "git ls" with an output very similar to GNU ls.
One big difference though: your "git ls" does not show directories. I understand that this is easier to implement, but from the user point of view it resulted in a "wtf" from me running "git ls" in a repository containing essentially directories, and seeing just a README file in the output.
Ideally (for me), directories should be shown with a trailing / like "ls -F" does.
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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/