hg status on current dir

[TK Soh]

On 5/2/07, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:59:50PM -0500, TK Soh wrote:
> > On 5/2/07, Robin Farine <robin.farine at terminus.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday May 2 2007 19:53, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> > > > Dnia środa, 2 maja 2007 19:03, Matt Mackall napisał:
> > > > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:53:56AM -0500, TK Soh wrote:
> > > > > > Before I start digging in the code, I wonder if it's
> > > > > > possible for hg status to check the files in the cwd without
> > > > > > traveling into the subdirs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes:
> > > > >
> > > > > hg status <explicit list of files>
> > > >
> > > > Or maybe
> > > >
> > > >   hg status --exclude subdir1 --exclude sibdir2 .
> > > >
> > > > (specifying all subdirectories). Usually there are less
> > > > subdirectories than files ;-)
> > >
> > > Now that you mention exclude, how about
> > >
> > >   hg status --exclude 'glob:*/*' .
> >
> > Thanks for all the suggestions, but this one seems to be most generic
> > one, since I don't need to know the list of folders or files up-front.
> > Thanks.
>
> Unfortunately exclude doesn't seem to be very effective at keeping the
> subdirectories from actually being statted.

Do you mean status will still travel into the subdirs, so the
execution will be the same?