Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Why do people think mysterious single letter abbreviation is > better than spelled out words in an output meant for human > consumption? > Familiarity, I suspect. > > I agree that it would be useful if we had a tool that showed the > two status that matter for each file, grouped together on one > line, e.g. > > HEAD->index index->files > ------------------------------------------------ > hello.c unmodified modified > world.c modified unmodified > frotz.c new unmodified > ... > garbage.c~ ??? n/a > > for the current index file and the current HEAD commit. > Could we have 'same' or some such instead of 'unmodified'? It's a bit close to 'modified' for the eye to find it quickly. > You obviously need to learn how to read it though. The first > column means what you _would_ commit if you just said "git > commit" without doing anything else now; the second column is > what you _could_ commit if you did some update-index and then > said "git commit" (or ran "git commit" with paths arguments). > Pretty-printing will be easier if the filename is last, and it will look a lot neater if all columns are aligned. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Mar 07 20:20:34 2006
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