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Re: [RFC PATCH] wt-status: show amended content when verbose

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Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2019, 00:27 UTC
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At 20:26 +0530 19 Nov 2019, Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>> > It too makes quite a lot of sense to allow readers to see what the
>> > 'amend' did, but that is not something that would help write the log
>> > message.
>
>It would help _amend_ the log message though.

Indeed. Another possible use is for sanity checking the amendment. I'll often look over the diff in my editor as a final check of what I'm about to commit, and when amending a commit I think I would find it helpful to be able to review the changes being amended separately from the full set of changes.

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  1. wt-status: show amended content when verbosePratyush Yadav, Nov 16, 2019
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2019
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2019
  4. Pratyush YadavNov 19, 2019
  5. Aaron SchrabNov 20, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2019

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