Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Improve cached content header of status output

From: Andy Whitcroft <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:54:15 +0000

Juergen Ruehle wrote:
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=FCrgen_R=FChle?= <[email-masked]>
> 
> This tries to be more to the point while also including a pointer on how to
> unstage changes from the index.
> 
> Since this header is printed in two different code paths and the name of the
> reference commit is needed for the unstage part, provide a new printing
> function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jürgen Rühle <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  wt-status.c |   18 ++++++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
> index 34be91b..98ca135 100644
> --- a/wt-status.c
> +++ b/wt-status.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ void wt_status_prepare(struct wt_status *s)
>  	s->untracked = 0;
>  }
>  
> +static void wt_status_print_cached_header(const char *reference)
> +{
> +	const char *c = color(WT_STATUS_HEADER);
> +	color_printf_ln(c, "# Cached changes to be committed:");
> +	if (reference) {
> +		color_printf_ln(c, "#   (use \"git reset %s <file>...\" and \"git rm --cached <file>...\" to unstage)", reference);
> +	} else {
> +		color_printf_ln(c, "#   (use \"git rm --cached <file>...\" to unstage)");
> +	}
> +	color_printf_ln(c, "#");

We seem to be using 'Cached' and 'staged' here.  I thought we had
updated all the docs to call files in the index "Staged for commit".  It
feels like the header should be more like:

     # Currently staged changes, will be commited:

The rm --cached is somewhat unfortunate either way.

-apw