From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:50:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 (v2)] reset: make the output more user-friendly.
Message-ID: <7vr5vate33.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqljlipcs6.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
>>>
>>>>  cat > expect << EOF
>>>> -file2: locally modified
>>>> +Unstaged changes after reset:
>>>> +M	file2
>>>
>>> It simply feels backwards when plumbing output says something in human
>>> language (e.g. "needs update") while Porcelain output spits out a cryptic
>>> M or U.  If the goal is human-readability and user-friendliness,
>>
>> The goal here is just consistency.
>>
>> And I do consider 'git diff --name-status' as porcelain.

Ok.