From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 02:21:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands
Message-ID: <8d45763bb4fa4c7d1e1f69dfaf93e647@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqil6w6al3.fsf@gitster.g>

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 "<command>.verbose = extra" or something similar would be a 
good choice.

> [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.