Question about git-ls-files

git-ls-files is a very useful command to list various types of files.

However, it has some weird behaviour.

Let's say someone removed the file and not updated the index yet.
I want to get status for all files in the directory, so I launch git-ls-files 
-t -m -d -o, and I get:

R removed-file
C removed-file
? something-else

(it looks even better if I call it w/o -t)

If the file is removed, then marking it as changed is redundant.
A removed file cannot be unchanged.

This behaviour makes for slow parsing, because to get the changed files which 
still exist one has to at least skip items (or uniquify the list). This 
shouldn't be needed.

Removed files should of course still be listed as changed if there's no -d 
parameter.

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