From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git-status too verbose? Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:19:58 +0100 Message-ID: <440D503E.8090007@op5.se> References: <38b80e980603040952j15152a21h2c903bd011d7e905@mail.gmail.com> <7vacc36r4v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Jaffe , Carl Worth , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 07 10:20:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGYMR-0006Pf-Cq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:20:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752078AbWCGJUB (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 04:20:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752109AbWCGJUB (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 04:20:01 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:17590 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752078AbWCGJUA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 04:20:00 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B7C6BD14; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:19:59 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vacc36r4v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Why do people think mysterious single letter abbreviation is > better than spelled out words in an output meant for human > consumption? > Familiarity, I suspect. > > I agree that it would be useful if we had a tool that showed the > two status that matter for each file, grouped together on one > line, e.g. > > HEAD->index index->files > ------------------------------------------------ > hello.c unmodified modified > world.c modified unmodified > frotz.c new unmodified > ... > garbage.c~ ??? n/a > > for the current index file and the current HEAD commit. > Could we have 'same' or some such instead of 'unmodified'? It's a bit close to 'modified' for the eye to find it quickly. > You obviously need to learn how to read it though. The first > column means what you _would_ commit if you just said "git > commit" without doing anything else now; the second column is > what you _could_ commit if you did some update-index and then > said "git commit" (or ran "git commit" with paths arguments). > Pretty-printing will be easier if the filename is last, and it will look a lot neater if all columns are aligned. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231