Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] status: update git-status.txt for --porcelain=v2

> On 07/30/2016 01:22 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote:
>> W dniu 26.07.2016 o 23:11, Jeff Hostetler pisze:
>>
>> This is a nice change, available because of lack of backward
>> compatibility with v1.  The porcelain v2 format branch-related
>> information could be enhanced without risk of breaking parsers,
>> or having new information put at the end even if it does not fit
>> there (like in previous iteration).
>>
>> One thing that can serve as goal for the series is using the
>> question: would it make __git_ps1() from git-prompt.sh be able
>> to render fully decorated prompt with all bells and whistles,
>> and with all combinations of options.  Thus beside upstream
>> in the future we might want SVN upstream, and/or pushed-to
>> remote branch (and remote push upstream repository), etc.
>>
>> But that's for the future (and it is possible for the future)...
>>
> 
> Yes, I was hoping to be able to simplify and/or speed up
> __git_ps1() with this data.  "Namespacing" the branch data
> here.  And then later add the state data (in a merge,
> in a rebase, and etc.) in a series of "# state.*" headers.
> And so on, until we get everything that __git_ps1() needs.
> However, to really make that work, we might want to add
> a --no-scan (or minimial scan) option, to just return the
> header data, since __git_ps1() doesn't care about the list
> of changes.