Re: git-status too verbose?
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Mar 7, 2006, 10:22 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes: > > >>>I agree that it would be useful if we had a tool that showed the >>>two status that matter for each file, grouped together on one >>>line, e.g. >>> HEAD->index index->files >>> ------------------------------------------------ >>> hello.c unmodified modified >>> world.c modified unmodified >>> frotz.c new unmodified >>> ... >>> garbage.c~ ??? n/a >>>for the current index file and the current HEAD commit. >> >>Could we have 'same' or some such instead of 'unmodified'? It's a bit >>close to 'modified' for the eye to find it quickly. >> >> >>>You obviously need to learn how to read it though. The first >>>column means what you _would_ commit if you just said "git >>>commit" without doing anything else now; the second column is >>>what you _could_ commit if you did some update-index and then >>>said "git commit" (or ran "git commit" with paths arguments). >> >>Pretty-printing will be easier if the filename is last, and it will >>look a lot neater if all columns are aligned. > > > Somebody who feels strongly about this can propose a design. > Although I am not particularly fond of the current output, I am > not volunteering ;-). > > It would be nicer if the proposal was accompanied by a patch, > but that is not a requirement for discussion. >
I'll see if I can get around to it tonight.
> The points that design would address should include: > > - what to do _if_ we choose to do rename detection? you need > two pathnames.
I like the gitk view of these things, "renamed from" and "renamed to", although we'll likely want shorter names since the filename part can't start before column max_label_name * 2 + 4 if we assume two spaces minimum between word-columns. Perhaps mv-to and mv-from?
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