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Re: [PATCH v2] status: list unmerged files last

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BLbill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 2, 2009, 00:39 UTC
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On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Sadly, "keep related things together" and "as close to the bottom as
> possible" are not quite compatible, and we can pick one or the other, but
> not both.
> 
> If I were to pick the middle ground, I would probably move it immediately
> after the call to wt_status_print_changed(), with "keeping related things
> together" as the primary justification.  It would be an incidental benefit
> that it moves the part slightly closer to the bottom and gives it a better
> chance of staying on the screen.

I can only speak of my personal experience that during rebase -i, there is no (or very few) untracked files in the list so that the sequence "modified, unmerged, untracked" is also a good alternative.

(I hope the mail-followup-to is correct this time)
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Message 8 of 34 in “unmerged files listed in the beginning of git-status”
  1. bill lamSep 1, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2009
  3. Johannes SixtSep 1, 2009
  4. status: list unmerged files after staged filesJohannes Sixt, Sep 1, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2009
  6. status: list unmerged files lastJohannes Sixt, Sep 1, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2009
  8. bill lamSep 2, 2009
  9. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2009
  11. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2009
  13. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  14. David AguilarSep 2, 2009
  15. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  16. David AguilarSep 3, 2009
  17. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  18. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  19. 1/6 status: typo fix in usageJeff King, Sep 5, 2009
  20. 2/6 docs: note that status configuration affects only long formatJeff King, Sep 5, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2009
  22. 3/6 status: refactor short-mode printing to its own functionJeff King, Sep 5, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2009
  24. 4/6 status: refactor format option parsingJeff King, Sep 5, 2009
  25. 5/6 status: add --porcelain output formatJeff King, Sep 5, 2009
  26. 6/6 commit: support alternate status formatsJeff King, Sep 5, 2009
  27. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  28. Johannes SixtSep 2, 2009
  29. Mark BrownSep 2, 2009
  30. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  31. Mark BrownSep 2, 2009
  32. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  33. Mark BrownSep 5, 2009
  34. bill lamSep 2, 2009

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