From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 06:29:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add very verbose porcelain output to status Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1467919588-11930-1-git-send-email-jeffhost@microsoft.com> Hi, On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Jeff Hostetler wrote: > 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 > --- 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