From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Melo Subject: Re: To page or not to page Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:49:26 +0100 Message-ID: <3C2FECF0-8765-4988-98B7-4B050F999128@simplicidade.org> References: <70F76C0E-E16D-4047-873D-7FD19FDBB55D@sb.org> <20080502054508.GA28506@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vlk2txn8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <8C3474E2-3A4F-44E8-B301-C36939C7BA11@sb.org> <807E185B-BEE5-4AAF-8DF4-EE597681D61C@wincent.com> <20080502123656.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wincent Colaiuta , Kevin Ballard , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 02 15:51:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jrvez-0001iL-M6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 15:50:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964876AbYEBNtg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 09:49:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964875AbYEBNtg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 09:49:36 -0400 Received: from mail.sl.pt ([212.55.140.13]:39619 "EHLO sl.pt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964874AbYEBNte (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 09:49:34 -0400 Received: (qmail 13282 invoked from network); 2 May 2008 13:49:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.0.128]) (melo@[213.205.86.37]) (envelope-sender ) by mail-sl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 May 2008 13:49:31 -0000 Received-SPF: none (mail-sl: domain of melo@simplicidade.org does not designate permitted sender hosts) In-Reply-To: <20080502123656.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jabber-Id: melo@simplicidade.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On May 2, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Jeff King wrote: > But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who > clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git- > status > output. > > I keep my "untracked files" list tidy. IOW, I always get: > > $ git status > # On branch master > nothing to commit (working directory clean) > > and if I don't, then I should be taking some action to commit things, > clean them up, or add them to my .git/info/exclude file. Do other > people > generally carry around a lot of cruft that "git status" reports? I tend to accumulate "screen-and-a-half" git status outputs. I usually hack on something until it works, and then I use git-gui and the hunk-based selection to order my work into a sane set of commits. Commit'ing more often would make me wander of my task. I guess its a matter of personal preference. Best regards, -- Pedro Melo Blog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/ XMPP ID: melo@simplicidade.org Use XMPP!