From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:35:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 3/4] git-status: show short sequencer state
Message-ID: <7v7gpoasf4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50A3ED8A.9080604@cisco.com>

Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> writes:

>   # tokens and short-status
>   $ git status --tree --short  
>   ## changed-files
>    M foo.txt

Hrm, how will the existing readers of the output avoid getting
confused by this overloading of "##", which has meant the current
branch information?

>   # tokens only?
>   $ git status --tree --porcelain
>   changed-files

It probably is simpler for parsers of the --porcelain format if you
(1) always used first two bytes as the record type, and (2) avoided
using "##" that is already used for the tree-wide status.

Just a thought.