Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Would it not be better to imitate the "-x" and "-X" options of ls-files, 
> then?  You could achieve the effect you desire by "git status -x \*"
> then.

That's equivalent feature-wise, but a bit slower performance-wise (the
proposed patch skips file listing totally). But since the use-case for
it is not the common case, it probably doesn't matter (and in case,
it's possible to hardcode an optimisation if the pattern is "*").

-- 
Matthieu
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