Re: [PATCHv2] git-status: show short sequencer state

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:05:14PM -0400, Phil Hord wrote:
>
>> I'm currently splitting this out into a series and reconsidering some
>> of it along the way.  I need some guidance.
>>
>> I want to support these two modes:
>>
>>   A.  'git status --short' with sequence tokens added:
>>        ## conflicted
>>        ## merge
>>        ?? untracked-workdir-file
>>        etc.
>>
>>   B.  Same as (A) but without workdir status:
>>        ## conflicted
>>        ## merge
>>
>> The user who wants 'A' would initiate it like this:
>>     git status --sequencer
>>   or
>>     git status -S
>>
>> How do I spell the options for 'B'?  I have come up with these three
>> possibilities:
>>     git --sequencer-only   # Another switch
>>     git --sequencer=only   # An OPTARG parser
>>     git -S -S           # like git-diff -C -C, an OPT_COUNTUP
>
> Might it be easier to spell 'A' as:
>
>   git status --short -S
>
> and B as:
>
>   git status -S
>
> this is sort of like how "-b" works (except you cannot currently ask for
> it separately, but arguably you could). If we have a proliferation of
> such options, then we might need config to help turn them on all the
> time (I'd guess people are probably already using aliases to do this).