From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of # Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:39:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1377694024-24173-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1377694024-24173-3-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <20130828201803.GB8088@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthieu Moy , git@vger.kernel.org, j.sixt@viscovery.net To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 28 23:39:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VEnSk-0002YQ-L0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:39:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755040Ab3H1Vjf (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:39:35 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:34864 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753024Ab3H1Vje (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:39:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C4A3DAC7; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:39:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=2HzvYD2dijV87eGco9wD03RAa/E=; b=ey+Jvs OHyC7PO5BFuMDMO/7unNe4/UCumE7QXE+uUTEyCZA5TUBB3AZeloqqISwUQd2LqU KiOQooFNXvdvCbTk9GzXpxrH9be1di1IahIBC/67dcfs5bORvs2ry6D2XSYlraN7 98Isyt/gx6d5AWU/9bU9+39t99JrnoAYbCdZo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=wZKcYtu1OGlDl2UpMSMkT4Hawo+oQDde sKPweNyPw8oNpXdSbvbX+aoOW2pxwEnDtZbCY9lXJarRrwb+AQPF1qcLbGQVJ/cW dV/m0x5iMMwL2OxrDv07OpgC4UbvGhIRy5u7I2khKPCrSyP3pP06tLpsHGWtdnTk qk2Tshh9HF0= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273EA3DAC6; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F3A83DAC3; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:39:30 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20130828201803.GB8088@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:18:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 525B59B6-102A-11E3-95DF-CA9B8506CD1E-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> What are our plans to help existing scripts people have written over >> time, especially before "status -s" was invented, that will be >> broken by use of this? > > I thought that our response to parsing the long output of "git status" > was always "you are doing it wrong". The right way has always been to > run the plumbing tools yourself, followed eventually by the --porcelain > mode to "git status" being blessed as a convenient plumbing. > > I will not say that people might not do it anyway, but at what point do > we say "you were warned"? OK, sounds good enough.