Re: To page or not to page

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 2, 2008, 12:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20080502123656.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <807E185B-BEE5-4AAF-8DF4-EE597681D61C@wincent.com>

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:34:10PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> But evidently given that there has been so much backlash against the  
> patch the only way to keep everyone happy will be to make this  
> configurable.

Agreed.

But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git-status output.

I keep my "untracked files" list tidy. IOW, I always get:

  $ git status
  # On branch master
  nothing to commit (working directory clean)

and if I don't, then I should be taking some action to commit things, clean them up, or add them to my .git/info/exclude file. Do other people generally carry around a lot of cruft that "git status" reports?

-Peff