From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 13:49:26 GMT
Subject: Re: To page or not to page
Message-ID: <3C2FECF0-8765-4988-98B7-4B050F999128@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080502123656.GA2680@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On May 2, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Jeff King wrote:

> But I wonder why there seems to be such a split between people who
> clearly have short git-status output, and those who have long git- 
> status
> output.
>
> I keep my "untracked files" list tidy. IOW, I always get:
>
>   $ git status
>   # On branch master
>   nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> and if I don't, then I should be taking some action to commit things,
> clean them up, or add them to my .git/info/exclude file. Do other  
> people
> generally carry around a lot of cruft that "git status" reports?

I tend to accumulate "screen-and-a-half" git status outputs.

I usually hack on something until it works, and then I use git-gui  
and the hunk-based selection to order my work into a sane set of  
commits.

Commit'ing more often would make me wander of my task.

I guess its a matter of personal preference.

Best regards,
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