Re: git-status too verbose?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 7, 2006, 09:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603071037270.8753@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060307091717.GA16645@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Karl Hasselström wrote:

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> On 2006-03-07 11:05:47 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:52PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > >                     HEAD->index     index->files
> > >     ------------------------------------------------
> > >     hello.c         unmodified      modified
> > >     world.c         modified        unmodified
> > >     frotz.c         new             unmodified
> > >         ...
> > >     garbage.c~      ???             n/a
> >
> > For what it's worth, this chart immediately made sense to me and I
> > would prefer it to the current git-status output.
> 
> I agree. This kind of status information makes the whole index concept
> an order of magnitude less confusing. In a way, it lets you learn what
> the index is by example, rather than first having to learn what it is
> in order to be able to grok the status information.

I beg to differ. The index thing is complex enough as it is. You should not shy away potentially customers by such output at such often used place.

Ciao, Dscho