From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 (v2)] reset: make the output more user-friendly. Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:50:08 -0700 Message-ID: <7vr5vate33.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vvdl0kau4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1249676676-5051-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1249676676-5051-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <7viqgztj76.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 17 21:50:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Md8Dn-00030G-5J for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:50:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755217AbZHQTuO (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755158AbZHQTuN (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:13 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:38805 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754328AbZHQTuM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:12 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005A7E1FB; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4FD9EE1F3; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Mon\, 17 Aug 2009 19\:31\:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2D8CD656-8B67-11DE-A9A1-EAC21EFB4A78-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> Matthieu Moy writes: >>> >>>> cat > expect << EOF >>>> -file2: locally modified >>>> +Unstaged changes after reset: >>>> +M file2 >>> >>> It simply feels backwards when plumbing output says something in human >>> language (e.g. "needs update") while Porcelain output spits out a cryptic >>> M or U. If the goal is human-readability and user-friendliness, >> >> The goal here is just consistency. >> >> And I do consider 'git diff --name-status' as porcelain. Ok.