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

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:28:46AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> 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.

OK, it was a bit more complex than that. But here is a series which does
a few things. It is still missing a few bits, so is RFC.

  These first two are unrelated fixups that I noticed while working.

  [1/6]: status: typo fix in usage
  [2/6]: docs: note that status configuration affects only long format

  These are the --porcelain patches we discussed. The first two are
  obviously cleanup.

  [3/6]: status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
  [4/6]: status: refactor format option parsing
  [5/6]: status: add --porcelain output format

  This brings the new formats to "commit --dry-run" to handle your case.
  Conceptually, it could come before (or instead) of 4/6 and 5/6, but as
  it adds both --short and --porcelain, there is an obvious dependency.

  [6/6]: commit: support alternate status formats

-Peff