Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:00:23 +0200

Junio C Hamano said the following on 03.06.2008 22:02:
> Marius Storm-Olsen <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Determining untracked files can be a very slow operation on large trees.
>> This commit adds a <mode> argument, which allows you to avoid showing the
>> untracked files in a repository. Possible options are:
>>     none   - Show no untracked files
>>     normal - Show untracked files and directories
>>     all    - Show all untracked files
>>
>> If the optional argument is not specified, the option defaults to 'all'.
> 
> You got me worried.  You are defaulting the parameter of "-u" to 'all',
> not making the command default (in the absense of -u anything) to "-u
> all", which was what I misunderstood on my first reading.  "the optional
> parameter defaults to 'all'" is what you meant...

Ok, I'll rewrite it to make it more clear.

> enum {NONE,NORMAL,ALL}_UNTRACKED are named (1) too generic, in a sense
> that it is not clear _what_ is done to the class of untracked worktree
> entities, and/or (2) opposite from other enums where common prefix is
> followed by differing part.
> 
> Perhaps renaming them to SHOW_{NONE,NORMAL,ALL}_UNTRACKED would make it
> easier to read.

Sure.

> It would have been nicer if this patch was further split into two; the
> first one to introduce NORMAL and ALL without changing any behaviour, then
> the second one to add NONE to introduce a new behaviour, with tests so
> that other people will not break this new feature in their later changes.

Ok, will do.

>> @@ -150,12 +150,15 @@ but can be used to amend a merge commit.
>>  	the last commit without committing changes that have
>>  	already been staged.
>>  
>> --u|--untracked-files::
>> -	Show all untracked files, also those in uninteresting
>> -	directories, in the "Untracked files:" section of commit
>> -	message template.  Without this option only its name and
>> -	a trailing slash are displayed for each untracked
>> -	directory.
>> +-u[<mode>]|--untracked-files[=<mode>]::
>> +	Show all untracked files.
>> +	The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify
>> +	the handling of untracked files. The possible options are:
>> +		none   - Show no untracked files
>> +		normal - Shows untracked files and directories
>> +		all    - Also shows individual files in untracked directories.
>> +	If the mode parameter is not specified, the defaults is
>> +	'all'.
> 
> Does this mark-up actually work?

I haven't actually run it through AsciiDoc. I'll make sure that it 
handles the next version of the patch(es).

Thanks for checking the patches!

--
.marius