From: Dragan Simic Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:14:34 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands Message-ID: <778c4540924ad076269ac72097cf3789@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: <8d45763bb4fa4c7d1e1f69dfaf93e647@manjaro.org> On 2023-10-24 04:21, Dragan Simic wrote: > On 2023-10-24 04:03, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I think the "use more verbose report format to help relatively >> inexperienced folks, in exchange for spending more screen real >> estate" is a good direction to think about this thing. >> >> I am not personally interested in adding such support all that much >> myself, but one piece of advice I can offer those who are interested >> is not to be too deeply attached to the word "table". >> >> ... snip ... >> >> So be very careful when choosing what to call this new thing, and >> avoid naming it after the implementation details (e.g., in what >> particular shape the data gets presented) that may turn out not to >> be the most important part of the concept. > > Totally agreed, "table" simply sneaked in and remained here as the > term. Perhaps ".verbose = extra" or something similar would > be a good choice. Just a brief update... Some of the associated patches are already ready to go, and some more are still pending to be implemented. It took me a while, which I apologize for, and now I've also unfortunately contracted some really bad flu. I'll be back to the patches as soon as the flu decides to go away. >> [Footnote] >> >> * FWIW, "git status -s" is a tabular presentation. Maybe we can >> add a more verbose form of "-s" and be done with it for the >> command? > > That's also an option.