Re: [PATCH] Add very verbose porcelain output to status

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 8, 2016, 06:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607080827200.6426@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1467919588-11930-1-git-send-email-jeffhost@microsoft.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Jeff Hostetler wrote:

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> Tools interacting with Git repositories may need to know the complete
> state of the working directory. For efficiency, it would be good to have
> a single command to obtain this information.
> 
> We already have a `--porcelain` mode intended for tools' consumption,
> and it only makes sense to enhance this mode to offer more information.
> 
> Just like we do elsewhere in Git's source code, we now interpret
> multiple `--verbose` flags accumulatively, and show substantially more
> information in porcelain mode at verbosity level 2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
> ---

For the record: I reviewed this patch (and an earlier revision) at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/812

I think it is in a good shape, and it is definitely an improvement for third-party tools that want to interact with a Git worktree.

Ciao, Dscho