Re: [PATCH v2] status: list unmerged files last

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 06:12:36PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote:

> The only use case would be for --amend.
> Which is why I asked about --porcelain; really what I want is
> something like
> 
> 	git status --porcelain HEAD^
> 
> Rolling a patch to make --porcelain an alias for --short seems
> like a good idea.  If we want to support HEAD^ and HEAD^ only
> then perhaps an --amend flag is useful.
> 
> The real crux of my question was about being able to script
> it, which is why commit --dry-run is not enough.

I see. I still think you may want to improve "commit --dry-run" with a
plumbing format, though, instead of "git status". Then it would
automagically support "--amend", as well as other dry-run things (e.g.,
"git commit --dry-run --porcelain --amend foo.c"). And not having looked
at the code, I would guess it is a one-liner patch to switch the "output
format" flag that commit passes to the wt-status.c code.

-Peff