From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:24:17 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2009, #02; Sun, 11)
Message-ID: <20091014042417.GA28795@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmy3w9qdd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:52:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Hmm. I thought you wanted to re-order some of these for to put the
> > porcelain and short formats into v1.6.6, but leave the status switchover
> > for v1.7.0.
> 
> We could build an alternate history between 3fa509d..46b77a6, revert the
> merges 9558627 and 65c8513, and merge the alternate history.  But is the
> short format support so solid that it deserves to be in 1.6.6 in the
> current shape?

Somewhere I seem to recall you saying that it would be nice to give the
--short format some wider exposure as "git status --short" before making
the "status is no longer commit --dry-run" switch-over. But now I can't
find that message anywhere.

Let's not worry about it.

-Peff