Re: Inconsistencies with git log
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- Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
- Date
- Nov 8, 2007, 08:29 UTC
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- <20071108082914.GA28800@xp.machine.xx>
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- <47325415.1070205@op5.se>
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> David Symonds wrote: >> On Nov 8, 2007 10:19 AM, Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> wrote: >>> However, Dave's suggestion of altering git-status output to be >>> relative to (but not limited by) CWD has merit. Too bad I don't have >>> time to work on it right now. >> >> I am happy to hack on this if there's not widespread revolt against the concept. >> > > I'd definitely like that feature, but I wonder how many people will run > "git commit -a" in a subdir after seeing only what they want to see in the > output, and then accidentally committing junk somewhere else in the repo. > > So perhaps git-commit -a should also be path-delimited, but where would we > end up then? It might be better to just let git-status accept a path > delimiter and let the path delimiter default to current work-dir. >
I agree that 'git status' should show the *whole* tree and if it will work in subdirectories with 'git status .' or 'git status Documentation', it would be a nice UI improvement.
But please don't make it always show only the current subdir.
-Peter