From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:45:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: git status options feature suggestion
Message-ID: <20081012064512.GA32597@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsgegvsh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:41:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> And just make it mimic whatever folks accustomed to "svn st" would expect,
> modulo we would need two status letters to signal difference between
> (HEAD, index), and (index, worktree).  Perhaps three if you want to show
> difference between (HEAD, worktree) while at it.

I remember a long time ago you started on a parallel diff walker that
could diff the working tree, the index, and a tree at once. Do you
remember the issues with it?

I think that would be the right tool here to show each file only once,
but with multiple status flags. Something like:

  A M foo

to show that "foo" has been added since the last commit, but there are
modifications in the working tree that have not yet been staged.

-Peff