From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.manjaro.org (mail.manjaro.org [116.203.91.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1AFB236082 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2024 19:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b="rrYT6WVG" Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manjaro.org; s=2021; t=1704482074; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=yCbNbaaNXt/Xe2F9tx4Nh9kpBF3HXKONjSh3ukDwoZM=; b=rrYT6WVGUOkKQu7me/V1ifuymTfeCfQ4dyJa3XbunJ7C6DRGCQDHjCrEuuH13BqGWDp3HQ LiJjBd0hzFtFjsOJbVUiE/xpCxS6GtSyCdeBOz4e6keNBcmtR8IJsY6qKiNYMX5V8M6YFs 1aW+V7lyhqnYqtcsI3fvu2jYuk1lZcNR0qYEMKHMrOX4wxFePM5WFax0mzifG/Ls/f6LP8 XxqG4QwE0hKcoz9PmwyHtbUoRGcBVf6DWBjwgiygZXBCykNRKqE04mbxp7JCbAzkCRGkD4 ro66PUCZeUUb//1GuO1ADqeqNuT+DKpJSXkSk/orCatV3dz4EnnT1iK1PzCbIA== Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:14:34 +0100 From: Dragan Simic To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Jacob Stopak , Oswald Buddenhagen , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands In-Reply-To: <8d45763bb4fa4c7d1e1f69dfaf93e647@manjaro.org> References: <5fac8607a3c270e06fd610551d7403c7@manjaro.org> <58a6a25a7b2eb82c21d9b87143033cef@manjaro.org> <62164acf4a787042dbb6e5abe212559b@manjaro.org> <8d45763bb4fa4c7d1e1f69dfaf93e647@manjaro.org> Message-ID: <778c4540924ad076269ac72097cf3789@manjaro.org> X-Sender: dsimic@manjaro.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Authentication-Results: ORIGINATING; auth=pass smtp.auth=dsimic@manjaro.org smtp.mailfrom=dsimic@manjaro.org On 2023-10-24 04:21, Dragan Simic wrote: > On 2023-10-24 04:03, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I think the "use more verbose report format to help relatively >> inexperienced folks, in exchange for spending more screen real >> estate" is a good direction to think about this thing. >> >> I am not personally interested in adding such support all that much >> myself, but one piece of advice I can offer those who are interested >> is not to be too deeply attached to the word "table". >> >> ... snip ... >> >> So be very careful when choosing what to call this new thing, and >> avoid naming it after the implementation details (e.g., in what >> particular shape the data gets presented) that may turn out not to >> be the most important part of the concept. > > Totally agreed, "table" simply sneaked in and remained here as the > term. Perhaps ".verbose = extra" or something similar would > be a good choice. Just a brief update... Some of the associated patches are already ready to go, and some more are still pending to be implemented. It took me a while, which I apologize for, and now I've also unfortunately contracted some really bad flu. I'll be back to the patches as soon as the flu decides to go away. >> [Footnote] >> >> * FWIW, "git status -s" is a tabular presentation. Maybe we can >> add a more verbose form of "-s" and be done with it for the >> command? > > That's also an option.