Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Apr 15, 2013, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzjwzkb4e.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nFB1dzmp6yC9XS4ADmWf9tfQYtsSH0K1u0dtBWT0CRNw@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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> A few small personal itches off the top of my head:
>
> - Make git status -s show "state status" as well: this essentially
> requires writing an equivalent of wt_status_print_state() for use in
> wt_shortstatus_print().

Do you mean, showing it in a natural language form, or machine-parsable?

If the later, there was a patch series doing essentially this:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/209240

It doesn't seem to have been merged. Phil, what happened to it?

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> - Make the -s and -b switches in git status configuration variables.
> I currently have status aliased to status -sb, and this is less than
> ideal.
>
> - Make the -3 and -c switches in git am configuration variables.  I
> have an alias.

Seems reasonable. Should be good technical warm-ups if people agree this is a good idea.

> - Create an advice.ui (like color.ui) to turn off all advice.  I don't
> need advice.

I tend to agree with you, but the idea has explicitly been rejected in the past. The problem with an option like this is that it would also disable the advices that may be added in the future. By letting people disable the advices one by one, people see new advices as they arrive. You may think of it like "do not show this message again" tickboxes in some graphical user interfaces.

Too controversial area for newcommers I guess ;-).

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Matthieu Moy
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