Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2013, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmwo18pgw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130828201803.GB8088@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> What are our plans to help existing scripts people have written over
>> time, especially before "status -s" was invented, that will be
>> broken by use of this?
>
> I thought that our response to parsing the long output of "git status"
> was always "you are doing it wrong". The right way has always been to
> run the plumbing tools yourself, followed eventually by the --porcelain
> mode to "git status" being blessed as a convenient plumbing.
>
> I will not say that people might not do it anyway, but at what point do
> we say "you were warned"?

OK, sounds good enough.