Subject: Re: git-status too verbose?

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:19:58 +0100

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.

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