From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Baumann Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:29:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20071108082914.GA28800@xp.machine.xx> References: <9e4733910711071415i1729e277u6be19b72cd682a85@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071445p7cfb6cffx83adb1d84d6bf9d8@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071503va92a653s25fd978989d5917d@mail.gmail.com> <243E1E6E-4723-42D3-933C-D2A0D1ACE287@silverinsanity.com> <47325415.1070205@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Symonds , Brian Gernhardt , Jon Smirl , Johannes Schindelin , Git Mailing List To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 08 09:29:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iq2lZ-0002gr-07 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:29:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754330AbXKHI3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 03:29:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752540AbXKHI3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 03:29:17 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51899 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751295AbXKHI3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 03:29:16 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Nov 2007 08:29:14 -0000 Received: from mason.hofmann.stw.uni-erlangen.de (EHLO localhost) [131.188.24.36] by mail.gmx.net (mp047) with SMTP; 08 Nov 2007 09:29:14 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1252284 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/e3+lGAULeW8QUknutgrTKCFfxDOkU1dZte6SG8w VLOdV8Yk2XuUKd Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47325415.1070205@op5.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > David Symonds wrote: >> On Nov 8, 2007 10:19 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote: >>> However, Dave's suggestion of altering git-status output to be >>> relative to (but not limited by) CWD has merit. Too bad I don't have >>> time to work on it right now. >> >> I am happy to hack on this if there's not widespread revolt against the concept. >> > > I'd definitely like that feature, but I wonder how many people will run > "git commit -a" in a subdir after seeing only what they want to see in the > output, and then accidentally committing junk somewhere else in the repo. > > So perhaps git-commit -a should also be path-delimited, but where would we > end up then? It might be better to just let git-status accept a path > delimiter and let the path delimiter default to current work-dir. > I agree that 'git status' should show the *whole* tree and if it will work in subdirectories with 'git status .' or 'git status Documentation', it would be a nice UI improvement. But please don't make it always show only the current subdir. -Peter