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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Disable "git status" comment prefix
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 17:55:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130906215509.GA13319@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq38phsvuc.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:43PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> >> FWIW, I had the same thought as Junio. I much prefer something like
> >> status.displayCommentPrefix for clarity and future-proofing.
> >
> > Sounds fine, but I don't understand why we'd want this to be an option
> > with a future in the first place.  Why not just fix the remaining bugs
> > before merging to master and make it unconditional?
> 
> I think some old-time users may appreciate to have a
> backward-compatibility option. It doesn't cost much for us, as we need
> the variable internally (to use the prefix in COMMIT_EDITMSG, and not on
> stdout), and it actually makes it easier to test.

Exactly. I kind of prefer the old output, though it is probably just
having my brain rotted from seeing it so much. I'm going to give the new
behavior a try for a while to see if I adjust, but ultimately I'd like
to have the escape hatch. And as you say, it doesn't cost much, since we
have to keep both code paths anyway.

> I won't change the header part in this topic (no time, sorry), but the
> missing newline before "nothing added" actually sounds like a bug, as
> there is normally a newline after each list of file in `git status`,
> except untracked and ignored.
> 
> I'll fix it as a separate patch in the next round.

Thanks for looking into it.

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-06 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05  9:50 [PATCH v4 0/5] Disable "git status" comment prefix Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05  9:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] builtin/stripspace.c: fix broken indentation Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05  9:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] wt-status: use argv_array API Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05  9:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] submodule summary: ignore --for-status option Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05  9:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] status: disable display of '#' comment prefix by default Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05  9:50 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] tests: don't set status.oldStyle file-wide Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05 12:35 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Disable "git status" comment prefix Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 19:36   ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-05 23:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 23:23     ` Jeff King
2013-09-06 16:44       ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-06 16:53       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-06 17:28         ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-06 18:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-06 18:43             ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-06 21:55           ` Jeff King [this message]

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