From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:08:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestions to make git easier to understand
Message-ID: <20110811230807.GA5608@elie.gateway.2wire.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmxffpo8e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not think "ls-files --contents" makes things any better, though.
> Until a new user encounters a conflicted state, it might look like that
> the primary point of "ls-files -s" is to show the object names, but it
> also is important that it shows the stage numbers.

Yes, sloppy of me.  I should have said "the intent of these
suggestions seems reasonable, and I believe that with minimal tweaking
they would all lead to good things".

In the case of "ls-files -s", I suspect what would be most useful is
a new porcelain "git ls --merge", building on Duy's work[*].

[*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166405/focus=166415