From: Dragan Simic Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:04:49 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands Message-ID: <18c7b1bea07d5f3878f4466b8e133da1@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: On 2023-10-23 21:01, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jacob Stopak writes: > >> Git-Sim is a visual dry-run tool for Git that creates images >> simulating >> what the corresponding Git command will do, without actually making >> any >> change to the underlying repo state. Another important aspect is that >> command syntax mimics Git's exactly - so to simulate any Git command, >> like: > > Ah, OK, now I see where your "--table" is coming from ;-). > "git-sim" was exactly what I thought about when I saw it, and I did > not know that "--table" came from the same set of brain cells. > > One thing that nobody seems to have raised that disturbs me is that > even though there may be educational value in having such a > "feature", having to carry the extra code to implement in Git incurs > extra cost. I was reasonably happy when I saw that "git-sim" was > done as a totally separate entity exactly for this reason. That's exactly why I already wrote that the original author of the table patches, if those would become accepted, should commit in advance to maintaining that as the new git feature.