Re: tool to diff cache <-> working directory

[Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>]

Hello,

> Are you using pure GIT, without any Porcelain layer like Cogito?

no, I actually write a porcelain layer myself in perl. For several reasons:

	- I want something that runs on Solaris without gnu-utils
	- I want to understand the git internals.
	- I don't need branches and refs in .git

> Cogito has "cg-status" that shows something like "cvs -n update"
> output.

I just finished implementing my 'git status' command which does the
following:

	(faui01) [~/work/git/git] git status
	 + 1
	 ? 2
	 - COPYING
	D* Makefile
	 * commit.c
	D  export.c

	+/-/* -> add, rm, mod
	?     -> orphan (not under revision control)
	D     -> dirty -> was explicit modified in cache but cache doesn't match working copy

I also have a ignore list for known orphans:

	(faui01) [~/work/git/git] cat .git/ignore
	\.o$
	git-cat-file
	...
	git-write-tree
	libgit.a

Sincerely,
	Thomas