for example, git-crypt status says something like this:
...
encrypted: my.secret
not encrypted: .git-crypt/.gitattributes
not encrypted: .git-crypt/keys/default/0/DEADBEAF.gpg
but we already know that... really, the git-crypt metadata dir
should not be displayed by status (it's essentially metadata,
and should be considered as "out of band" information).
I think this may be generalized.
For instance if you have a bare repository with $HOME as the top-level, status will output the not encrypted line for almost everything in the home directory.
for example,
git-crypt status
says something like this:but we already know that... really, the git-crypt metadata dir should not be displayed by
status
(it's essentially metadata, and should be considered as "out of band" information).