Subject: Re: git-gui disagrees with git status

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:57:47 +0200

Am 5/11/2010 7:41, schrieb Miles Bader:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]> writes:
>> Its more a feature.
>>
>> git-gui shows all untracked files, recursively expanding any
>> directories which contain untracked files.  git status collapses
>> them up.
> 
> Wait, why is this a feature, exactly...?
> 
> It may be well known that git-gui works this way, but that doesn't make
> it good behavior for the user.

Oh, it *is* good behavior. Otherwise, it would not be possible to stage a
file that resides in a currently untracked directory; you would have to
fall back to 'git add' on the command line.

-- Hannes