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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Tim Harper" <timcharper@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] I don't known anyone who understands what it means when they do a merge and see "file.txt: needs update". "file.txt: has changes" is much clearer.
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:35:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130805050935l7257a5e3t9b44d61abe28db37@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzhesvxu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 5/3/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
>  > On 5/3/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  >> Of course not.  Where does end-user scripts come into play when you are
>  >>  running the testsuite?
>  >
>  > I thought user scripts weren't supposed to rely on the porcelain
>  > output?  It seems to change rather frequently anyway.
>
> Wasn't the patch about changing output from "update-index --refresh",
>  which is as low as you can get?

Hmm, perhaps the problem then is that we're using plumbing output and
presenting it to the user as part of the porcelain.  Is there an
elegant way to fix that?

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-03  7:08 [PATCH] I don't known anyone who understands what it means when they do a merge and see "file.txt: needs update". "file.txt: has changes" is much clearer Tim Harper
2008-05-03 14:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-03 16:19   ` Tim Harper
2008-05-03 16:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-03 20:10     ` Tim Harper
2008-05-04  0:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-04  0:21         ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-04  1:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-05 16:35             ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2008-05-05 17:05               ` Jeff King
2008-05-06 21:50               ` Tim Harper
2008-05-04  9:29     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-03 15:24 ` Matt Graham

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