From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:39:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] status: list unmerged files last
Message-ID: <20090902003940.GA23954@debian.b2j>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyzmxkpr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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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