[Bug 4119] New: don't list the content of untracked directories in status command

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeffpc at josefsipek.net
Thu Jul 13 22:44:13 UTC 2017


It's been a while since this bug got closed as WONTFIX.  I'm wondering if
the developers' thoughts about this changed since then.

(I wouldn't mind if this functionality was behind an argument or a config
option.)

Thanks,

Jeff.

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:59:33 +0000, mercurial-bugs at selenic.com wrote:
> http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4119
> 
>           Priority: normal
>             Bug ID: 4119
>                 CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com
>           Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
>            Summary: don't list the content of untracked directories in
>                     status command
>           Severity: feature
>     Classification: Unclassified
>                 OS: Linux
>           Reporter: denis at laxalde.org
>           Hardware: PC
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>            Version: unspecified
>          Component: Mercurial
>            Product: Mercurial
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The status command lists all untracked files by default. This can be quite
> expensive (especially when working remotely) when one has, e.g., a build
> directory full of temporary files. While one can always add these to .hgignore
> or use -q option, I would like to suggest that the status command only lists
> top-level directories if there's only untracked files inside, instead of
> listing there full content.
> 
> Thanks for considering,
> Denis
> 
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