Re: Fwd: git status options feature suggestion

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@gmail.com>]

On 10/12/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> [..snip..]
> I was going to suggest the same.  "git st" for people who come from "svn st"
>  so that "git status" can be kept as traditional "preview of 'git commit'".
>
>  And just make it mimic whatever folks accustomed to "svn st" would expect,
>  modulo we would need two status letters to signal difference between
>  (HEAD, index), and (index, worktree).  Perhaps three if you want to show
>  difference between (HEAD, worktree) while at it.
>
>  And no, I have not seen any argument good enough to change ls-files nor
>  diff-$lowlevel output and break people's existing scripts.
>

Please, at least introduce a new option (--status-letters)  that makes

git log --name-status
git diff --name-status
git ls-files -v

to use consistent letters to indicate the status. For details, see
recent discussion
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg81141.html

Thanks,
--Leo--