From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Unification of user message strings
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:33:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F687905.6070200@lyx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339934h39.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
>>
>> It seems that the terms "Porcelain" and "plumbing" seems to be mixed
>> up somewhere.
>>
>> From 'git help status': "PORCELAIN FORMAT: The porcelain format is
>> similar to the short format, but is guaranteed not to change in a
>> backwards-incompatible way between git versions or based on user
>> configuration. This makes it ideal for parsing by scripts".
> The '--porcelain' option means "intended *for* parsing by porcelain",
> not that it is 'porcelain' output.
I've a hard time to interpret the quote above in the way you explain.
Maybe a little improvement to this description would be helpful.
>
> HTH
Thanks.
Vincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-20 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-19 17:51 [PATCH 0/2] Unify the style of user messages Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-19 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] Unification of user message strings Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-19 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-19 20:16 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-19 20:53 ` Jeff King
2012-03-19 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-20 7:47 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-20 12:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-20 12:33 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn [this message]
2012-03-19 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make some strings translatable Vincent van Ravesteijn
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