From: Tim Harper Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:50:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] I don't known anyone who understands what it means when they do a merge and see "file.txt: needs update". "file.txt: has changes" is much clearer. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <32541b130805050935l7257a5e3t9b44d61abe28db37@mail.gmail.com> Yeah: I was thinking about it earlier and came at the same conclusion. There's a "porcelain" interface for a lot of commands. Does the concept need to be furthered for this case? On another note - I've been running with this change for several days, and everything seems to be alright. Tim On May 5, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On 5/3/08, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> "Avery Pennarun" writes: >>> On 5/3/08, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>> Of course not. Where does end-user scripts come into play when >>>> you are >>>> running the testsuite? >>> >>> I thought user scripts weren't supposed to rely on the porcelain >>> output? It seems to change rather frequently anyway. >> >> Wasn't the patch about changing output from "update-index --refresh", >> which is as low as you can get? > > Hmm, perhaps the problem then is that we're using plumbing output and > presenting it to the user as part of the porcelain. Is there an > elegant way to fix that? > > Avery