From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-runstatus to limit its scope to a set of files/directories. Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:24:09 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1193508519-14140-1-git-send-email-mma@objectxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michel Marti X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 27 20:25:00 2007 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 1IlqLC-0005Vh-By for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:24:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751180AbXJ0SYq (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:24:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751816AbXJ0SYq (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:24:46 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47449 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751003AbXJ0SYp (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:24:45 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2007 18:24:43 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 27 Oct 2007 20:24:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18kWd5ZhvEkNfVvlCXJZ1ipGqFcmaTd+MpES9cakG GtjG/xFNykLvyN X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <1193508519-14140-1-git-send-email-mma@objectxp.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Michel Marti wrote: > Signed-off-by: Michel Marti > --- > IMO, the next step should be to tweak git-status/git-commit: I suggest > introducing a new option '--what-if' to 'git-commit' that behaves like current > 'git-status [...]' and in return stop 'git-status' from displaying > '[...]' as "Changes to commit". I am not sure this is the correct way to go, since "git status" as a "git commit --dry-run" has worked well so far. Besides, I would like to see builtin-commit go in as soon as possible, and this patch would delay that. Ciao, Dscho