git-crypt status in folders with many untracked files

[sroemer]

I am using git to keep track of my configuration files in a 'dotfiles' repository. In my case my home folder is a git repository on its own and the git configuration for this is configured with status.showuntrackedfiles=no. Obviously the home folder contains quite a large amount of files and git-crypt status tries to show a status for each of it which results in the status being quite unusable.

Wouldn't it be useful if git-crypt status also (maybe even optionally) respects the configuration accordingly or even only cares about tracked files at all? I currently don't see why someone would care in the status about untracked files, but maybe I am missing something here.

[sroemer]

Additional note on that:

From the code I see that git-crypt status calls git ls-tree to get a list of files. For this operation the parameters -cotsz are used, with the -o causing ls-files to "show other (i.e. untracked) files in the output" (which is the description from the help page).

Here -ctsz should be enough to show all tracked files (including staged files). A manual test of calling git ls-tree -ctsz seems to work as expected on a first try.