From: Nicholas Allen Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:46:21 GMT Subject: Re: git and bzr Message-ID: <456CBC3D.8020409@onlinehome.de> In-Reply-To: > > The other useful tools to be used are "git log --merge" (explained in a > separate mail) and for people like me who like the git index and grok it > fully, doing a > > git ls-files --unmerged --stage > > is probably what I'd do (but I have to admit, that is _not_ a very > user-friendly interface - you need to not only have understood the index > file, you actually need to understand it on a very deep level). > > "git status" is really used to be just a stupid around "git ls-files" > (it's now largely a built-in), but it was really _so_ stupid that it > doesn't really try to explain what it does - it's more like a simplified > version of ls-files with some of the information pruned away, and other > parts in a slightly more palatable format ;) > > So improving "git status" might mean that some people could avoid having > to learn about the index file details ;) That sounds good. Better output on status would be nice ;-)