From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:21:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] status: really ignore config with --porcelain Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v1u7rbf9v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > That means after we add more and more other options like --branch > that enrich the output in several years, scripts that want to use > the enriched data need to pass tons of options to get what they > want, which is not very nice, Right, but accepting status.branch would not even solve that. Script writers should not assume that status.branch is set. So, the --branch is still required. Actually, that would even be worse, as a script writer who's used to status.branch being set would not even notice that --branch is missing. So, he'd still need it, but would have greater chance to miss it. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/