From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:57:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion on git-push --porcelain
Message-ID: <7vmxzhn6fp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d1002091834i1c4b202cp5afacc326bd1a4d6@mail.gmail.com>

Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:

>   $ git push --porcelain
>   PORCELAIN To git://foo.com/git/myrepo.git
>   PORCELAIN uptodate refs/heads/baz:refs/heads/baz 1234ab ba4321
>   PORCELAIN nonff refs/heads/bar:refs/heads/bar 2345cd 3456de
>
> This is an "positive" approach, in the sense that we don't remove
> anything from the current output; we just add more printf("PORCELAIN")
> lines to wherever is appropriate.

Sorry, but I don't see what that would solve.  For example, we used not to
give the destination to the standard output stream, but that line carries
a necessary information and Larry's series corrects that.

In your "prefix with PORCELAIN" scheme, such a change will start adding a
new line "PORCELAIN To ..." that older implementations may not be prepared
to see.

Other than making the output more noisy, I do not see an improvement here.