From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 18:01:12 GMT
Subject: Bug report : git-status manual fibs about semantics of --porcelain
Message-ID: <30543.1305828072@plover.com>


The 1.7.5.1 manual says:

     --porcelain::
    	Give the output in a stable, easy-to-parse format for scripts.
    	Currently this is identical to --short output, but is guaranteed
    	not to change in the future, making it safe for scripts.

However, this is not actually true.  --porcelain differs from --short
in at least two ways, one of them significant.  

--short is colorized when color.status = auto, while --porcelain is
not.

More importantly, --short reports file paths relative to the
current directory, while --porcelain reports file paths relative to
the root of the repository.

All of this was the case in 1.7.0.4 also, and presumably the versions
in between.

Mark Jason Dominus 	  			                 mjd@plover.com