Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 0/4] A new library for plumbing output

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 14, 2010, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7viq7toh12.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004142329.38914.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Well, this whole idea started with the fact, that "git status --short"
> was hard (or impossible) to parse unambigously by scripts[1], and even
> "git status --porcelain -z"[2] is not that easy to parse[3].

And you apparently seem to agree with that claim, but I don't. I think Jeff (who did the --porcelain stuff; by the way, why did we lose him from Cc list?) has already said that he is open to an update.

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