From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 22:20:02 GMT Subject: Re: git-status -- trying to understand all possible states Message-ID: <20140401222002.GD6851@google.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF06B83-E928-4FE2-8094-F23CE3BA1EBC@toyland.org> Michael Toy wrote: > https://gist.github.com/the-michael-toy/9907309 Two nits: - Please use --porcelain (implied by -z in the absence of another format option) instead of --short. --short is meant to be human readable and details of the output might change some day. - Depending on what you're trying to do, you might find the output from other commands such as "git ls-files -s" or "git diff-files" easier to work with. Hope that helps, Jonathan