Re: [PATCH v2] status: display "doing what" information in git status

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: May 6, 2011, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20110506173656.GA2872@madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vei4b20we.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:29:21AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > 	$ git status
> > 	# in the middle of a git rebase -i of master (detached head)
> > ...
> > 	#       qkv/A/
> > 	no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
> >
> > If we have an ongoing operation then:
> > - if we are on a branch it displays:
> >   # On branch $branch ($what_is_ongoing)
> >   #   ($ongoing_hint)
> > - if we are on a detached head it displays:
> >   # $what_is_ongoing (detached head)
> >   #   ($ongoing_hint)
> 
> I'll reindent the above to align these example output the earlier output sample
> when I apply them.

Sure.

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> > +	const char * const rebase_advice =
> > +		_("use \"git rebase --abort\" to abort current rebase or proceed");
> > +	const char * const am_advice =
> > +		_("use \"git am --abort\" to abort current mailbox apply or proceed");
> 
> If the reader does not even know that the "--abort" option is used to
> abort, " or proceed" needs to be followed by "by doing $this", if it wants
> to have any practical value.  I would suggest dropping it.
> 
> > +	const char * const merge_advice =
> > +		_("use \"git reset --hard\" to abort, or resolve conflicts and commit");
> This codepath being in wt-status.c, I wonder if any of these advices could
> trigger to appear in the log message editor when the user tries to run
> "git commit".  If so, I suspect any of the above is too late to help the
> user, no?

Well I'm not very happy with the advices, feel free to reword them in a better way.

> Also, should we make these conditional upon advice.status or something?

they are
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    +       if (advice && advice_status_hints) {
    +               status_printf(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), "");
    +               status_printf_more(s, status_nobranch, "  (%s)\n", advice);
    +       }

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