From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] RelNotes/1.8.5: direct script writers to "git status --porcelain"
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:23:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380201815-14140-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Not terribly important, but the old item alone may sound like "we
broke your script purposely, good luck with the new version" to a
script writer.
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
index ac5c3fa..f100a0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git status" now omits the prefix to make its output a comment in a
commit log editor, which is not necessary for human consumption.
+ Scripts that parse the output of "git status" are advised to use
+ "git status --porcelain", which is both easier to parse and stable,
+ instead.
* Make "foo^{tag}" to peel a tag to itself, i.e. no-op., and fail if
"foo" is not a tag. "git rev-parse --verify v1.0^{tag}" would be
--
1.8.4.474.g128a96c
next reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-26 13:23 Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-09-26 18:19 ` [PATCH] RelNotes/1.8.5: direct script writers to "git status --porcelain" Jakub Narebski
2013-09-26 18:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Matthieu Moy
2013-09-26 20:45 ` [PATCH] " Keshav Kini
2013-09-28 0:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
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