Re: [PATCH v3] ls-files: introduce "--format" option

[ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 于2022年6月27日周一 23:41写道：
>
> ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Oh, sorry, I mean if someone need some atoms from %(size) to %(flags), we can
> > add them back.
>
> Ah, I see.  I am not sure about the %(flags) to help the debugging
> mode, but giving a single bit "is it dirty?" would be more useful
> than giving the cached stat info, I would think.
>

diff --git a/builtin/ls-files.c b/builtin/ls-files.c
index 061a205576..ccb3fd1676 100644
--- a/builtin/ls-files.c
+++ b/builtin/ls-files.c
@@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ static size_t expand_show_index(struct strbuf *sb,
const char *start,
                write_eolattr_to_buf(sb, data->istate, data->pathname);
        else if (skip_prefix(start, "(path)", &p))
                write_name_to_buf(sb, data->pathname);
+       else if (skip_prefix(start, "(updatetodate)", &p))
+               strbuf_addstr(sb, ce_uptodate(data->ce) ? "true" : "false");
        else
                die(_("bad ls-files format: %%%.*s"), (int)len, start);


I try to use ce_uptodate(ce) to check its flags, but unfortunately,
git ls-files --format="%(updatetodate)" output all files are "false" :(
That's because we have not mark some flags in the cache entry, right?

> Thanks.
>

ZheNing Hu