From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 (v2)] reset: make the output more user-friendly. Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:20:13 -0700 Message-ID: <7viqgztj76.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vvdl0kau4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1249676676-5051-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1249676676-5051-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 07 23:20:30 2009 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 1MZWrV-0007Hx-Os for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:20:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755711AbZHGVUV (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:20:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755441AbZHGVUV (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:20:21 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:51910 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753309AbZHGVUV (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:20:21 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292551FF0; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:20:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 943521FEE; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:20:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1249676676-5051-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Fri\, 7 Aug 2009 22\:24\:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1A8F0CEE-8398-11DE-8E61-EAC21EFB4A78-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: > cat > expect << EOF > -file2: locally modified > +Unstaged changes after reset: > +M file2 It simply feels backwards when plumbing output says something in human language (e.g. "needs update") while Porcelain output spits out a cryptic M or U. If the goal is human-readability and user-friendliness, shouldn't we rather say: Path with local modifications: file2 or something?