Johannes Sixt wrote:
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>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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>>> Its more a feature.
>>>
>>> git-gui shows all untracked files, recursively expanding any
>>> directories which contain untracked files.  git status collapses
>>> them up.
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> 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.

I would say rather it is the best we have.  Much better would be to
display untracked directories using a tree view (like gitk’s
treeview), starting out collapsed[1].

Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/572805
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