Re: [PATCH] correct git-status Porcelain Format documentation

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > What should "git status --porcelain -z -b" look like? With my patch, it
> > prints the branch-line with only a newline, not respecting the NUL
> > termination. Which sounds like a bug, except that's what happens _now_
> > with "git status --short -z -b".  Which seems like a bug to me, but
> > maybe somebody is relying on that. It seems kind of broken to me.
> 
> It is broken; and it is not a problem if somebody relied on a broken
> output without giving --porcelain in a script and such a script needs to
> be updated.  If we are updating the code to give "## <branch>" in the
> output under the "--porcelain", let's do that right from the beginning.

> > Should this be simplified to just "this implies porcelain"?
> >
> > That would technically break somebody who wanted their
> > status.relativePaths config option respected. But it kind of seems crazy
> > to me.
> 
> I do not think it is worth changing it.  It is not too much touble to
> spell "status --porcelain -z <whatever else>" in a Porcelain script only
> once and forget about it.