From: Mark Dominus Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:04:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] document 'T' status from git-status Message-ID: <4EAEAAE5.30209@icgroup.com> In-Reply-To: <7vpqhdrdys.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> > It is trivial if Yes, it was very stupid of me to miss that. > I dunno. > > An obvious alternative is to add T next to all occurrences of M in the > table where we say "M is possible", but unless it is accompanied by an > explanation "T is just a special case of M", I suspect the resulting > description would be harder to understand than currently is, and as long > as the reader understands "T is just a special case of M", then there > isn't much point adding T everywhere M appears in the table anyway, so... If you are suggesting that the patch you gave is preferable to actually including T in the table, then I agree. Your patch is also better than what I sent because it includes the unusual word "filetype", which the user is likely to search for after seeing it in the git-status output.