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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
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
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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