Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Disable "git status" comment prefix

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 6, 2013, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqsixhrdsg.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk3ityg2x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Actually, "nothing added ..." is not a part of status proper; it
> will be clear if you run the command with comment prefix, whose
> output may end like so:
>
>     # Untracked files:
>     #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>     #
>     #       gomi
>     #       kuzu
>     nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> But I agree that the output without comment prefix needs an extra
> blank before that line (if that line will be emitted, that is).

Even when the line is not emitted, we normally do:

# On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # modified: foo.txt #

(with the last #-only line), so there's no reason to behave differently when the last lines are "Untracked files".

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Matthieu Moy
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