From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: [PATCH] RelNotes/1.8.5: direct script writers to "git status --porcelain" Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:23:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1380201815-14140-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Cc: Matthieu Moy To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 26 15:30:28 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 1VPBeG-0000Ue-3H for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:30:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750804Ab3IZNaY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:30:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:58169 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750748Ab3IZNaX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:30:23 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r8QDNo8C021636 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:23:50 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VPBXr-0004Vb-FY; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:23:51 +0200 Received: from moy by anie.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VPBXr-0003h0-5u; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:23:51 +0200 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4.474.g128a96c X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:23:51 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: r8QDNo8C021636 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1380806631.36852@3P9ah7E/7b9G1qpyAUs/eQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy --- 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