From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document ls-files -t as obsolete. Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:58:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1271252704-21739-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tor Arntsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 14 17:03:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O247W-00028Z-FM for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:03:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755957Ab0DNPC4 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:02:56 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:55911 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755744Ab0DNPCz (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:02:55 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3EEwrjj014423 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:58:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O243J-0005JN-31; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:58:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Tor Arntsen's message of "Wed\, 14 Apr 2010 16\:47\:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:58:53 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tor Arntsen writes: > Sorry for being stupid and a bit off-topic, but.. > >> =A0-t:: >> + =A0 =A0 =A0 This feature is deprecated. Authors of scripts should = use >> + =A0 =A0 =A0 linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain`, [...] > > I've always understood 'porcelain' as for users, and 'plumbing' for > scripts.. so, if the option is meant for scripting (as opposed to > --short), why wasn't it called --plumbing? There's obviously somethin= g > I'm not getting here! -:) There's prior art ("git annotate --porcelain" at least). I disagree with the rationale, but --porcelain means "to be used by porcelain scripts", hence "behave like plubing". -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/