From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: Breaking "git status" (was Re: [PATCH 5/5] shortstatus: a new command) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:57:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1249463746-21538-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1249463746-21538-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1249463746-21538-3-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1249463746-21538-4-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1249463746-21538-5-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1249463746-21538-6-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <20090806153339.GC1970@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vljlwnc6j.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 06 21:57:39 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 1MZ95l-00045E-KQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:57:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756629AbZHFT51 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:57:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756630AbZHFT51 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:57:27 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:40475 "EHLO mail-ew0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756627AbZHFT5Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:57:25 -0400 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so1060956ewy.37 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:57:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QxWowduA0MzzHIG6kIp6FNyL6V9HuUAs1ACJneoeVWY=; b=NTXgndQ8Iq1UhvOmvxT4VBIJHBYirTaiY1apB7yBC64jYUVtQO7GnUgJVFtPBz+UZU Wj/yNqOQ38b8sp5/PjmfUmR/clZ/wf8eE2LFLrpGmvYx17hH9D9nPllZarj6C1MQun1b 5GG8qH3416oj3xoFe1MQTXGVdGsu2L9RHCan8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=esg+RbWIib96mq76NPtXVbXeODyebAwuFlo8GrsGnAu5DZ4JN2xtj3jtxriPWM6eWT 5kVFHA06cRmPKyhGHXZ779rwH/rKjUFQI3pz+yRXcmW2pzuePi4GzIspvvA/VOmVF0A+ Pj9cBzZCyH98BZpgV1kIPwjlLyUou+8dj6JXo= Received: by 10.216.28.193 with SMTP id g43mr48052wea.192.1249588645116; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:57:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vljlwnc6j.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 09:23, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > =A0* Implement "git status" that is not a preview of "git commit". =A0= Its new > =A0 semantics would include: =46WIW, I think this is a a great idea, 'git status' being a preview of 'git commit' has never made sense to me from a UI perspective, and I never actually use 'git status' for that purpose. While I do use it to look at what I'm going to commit, I never use any 'git commit' modifiers in combination with git status. On that note, I agree with Jeff that a config option does not make a lot of sense, especially if we introduce 'git commit -d|--dry-run'. --=20 Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier