From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:14:56 GMT
Subject: Re: How to get status-like short format for old commits?
Message-ID: <20120326201456.GC13098@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAA01CsppeF8r_hDhuE7snExxJ6zaWdt5Znu82ZzDmyNMzWRDfA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:53:45PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:

> [log --name-status]
> not so nice as status, but still ok.

Yeah, the code to print the verbose "modified: foo.c" style is specific
to status. We could refactor it to be a new generic diff output type,
which would not be that hard. In practice, though, I think people choose
either "--stat --summary" if they want to show to a person (it's a
superset of what status shows, because it also contains the number of
lines changed for each file), or "--raw" if they need something
machine-readable.

Does one of those work for you? If not, it might be a fun and relatively
simple exercise to create a --verbose-name-status that looks like the
output of "git status" (you could also do it by post-processing
--name-status output, but that is less fun and more hacky :) ).

-Peff