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Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 28, 2013, 20:18 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> What are our plans to help existing scripts people have written over
> time, especially before "status -s" was invented, that will be
> broken by use of this?

I thought that our response to parsing the long output of "git status" was always "you are doing it wrong". The right way has always been to run the plumbing tools yourself, followed eventually by the --porcelain mode to "git status" being blessed as a convenient plumbing.

I will not say that people might not do it anyway, but at what point do we say "you were warned"?

-Peff
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Message 11 of 21 in “status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #”
  1. status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #Matthieu Moy, Aug 28, 2013
  2. Johannes SixtAug 28, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2013
  4. 1/3 builtin/stripspace.c: fix broken indentationMatthieu Moy, Aug 28, 2013
  5. 2/3 submodule: introduce --[no-]display-comment-charMatthieu Moy, Aug 28, 2013
  6. Jens LehmannAug 28, 2013
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  8. 3/3 status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #Matthieu Moy, Aug 28, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2013
  11. Jeff KingAug 28, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2013
  13. David AguilarAug 28, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2013
  15. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  16. brian m. carlsonAug 31, 2013
  17. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2013
  20. Jonathan NiederAug 28, 2013
  21. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013

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