# git-status -- trying to understand all possible states 5 messages from 2014-04-01 to 2014-04-02. Participants: Michael Toy, Junio C Hamano, Jonathan Nieder, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/36336 ## Michael Toy, 2014-04-01 20:07 Subject: git-status -- trying to understand all possible states Message-ID: <4AF06B83-E928-4FE2-8094-F23CE3BA1EBC@toyland.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AF06B83-E928-4FE2-8094-F23CE3BA1EBC%40toyland.org ``` I also have this question posted to stack overflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22792906/how-do-i-produce-every-possible-git-status ), but perhaps this is a better place to ask this question. In working on some code which provides an interface to existing git repositories the question I had was "what actions should I present to a user", which lead to the question, "what does a user need to do to generate that condition", which lead to developing this gist: https://gist.github.com/the-michael-toy/9907309 ... which is a ruby script which tries to produce a repository with a file in every possible "git-status" XY condition Of the 24 possibilities (not counting ignored) in git-status, there are 7 that I can't figure out how to generate. D M deleted from index C [ MD] copied in index D D unmerged, both deleted A U unmerged, added by us U A unmerged, added by them any clues, including pointers to "just go read XXX" would be appreciated. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2014-04-01 21:37 Subject: Re: git-status -- trying to understand all possible states Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq4n2czq6n.fsf%40gitster.dls.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: <4AF06B83-E928-4FE2-8094-F23CE3BA1EBC@toyland.org> ``` Michael Toy writes: > Of the 24 possibilities (not counting ignored) in git-status, > there are 7 that I can't figure out how to generate. As the post [*1*] that triggered e92e9cd3 (Documentation improvements for the description of short format., 2010-04-23), which is where the bulk of the format description comes from, says, this is "Patches welcome" ;-) Some are just covering possible permutations and it is not surprising if they would not appear in practice. > D M deleted from index I doubt this is possible in practice; once you do not have the entry in the index, we do not even look at the working tree file, so it would be unusual to see M in the second column. > D D unmerged, both deleted > A U unmerged, added by us > U A unmerged, added by them $ x="100644 $(git hash-object --stdin URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20140401222002.GD6851%40google.com In-Reply-To: <4AF06B83-E928-4FE2-8094-F23CE3BA1EBC@toyland.org> ``` Michael Toy wrote: > https://gist.github.com/the-michael-toy/9907309 Two nits: - Please use --porcelain (implied by -z in the absence of another format option) instead of --short. --short is meant to be human readable and details of the output might change some day. - Depending on what you're trying to do, you might find the output from other commands such as "git ls-files -s" or "git diff-files" easier to work with. Hope that helps, Jonathan ``` ## Michael Toy, 2014-04-01 23:01 Subject: Re: git-status -- trying to understand all possible states Message-ID: <1DC6FC8F-3CF8-4DDF-8B34-9349E8289C47@toyland.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1DC6FC8F-3CF8-4DDF-8B34-9349E8289C47%40toyland.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Apr 1, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> D M deleted from index > > I doubt this is possible in practice ... > >> D D unmerged, both deleted >> A U unmerged, added by us >> U A unmerged, added by them > > ... you would not see these three unless you are developing Git using a > low-level plumbing machinery. Thanks, that is very helpful. The "C[ MD]" are now the remaining mystery ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2014-04-02 08:31 Subject: Re: git-status -- trying to understand all possible states Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqd2h0gmj2.fsf%40anie.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <20140401222002.GD6851@google.com> ``` Jonathan Nieder writes: > - Please use --porcelain (implied by -z in the absence of another > format option) instead of --short. --short is meant to be human > readable and details of the output might change some day. It already does: part of the output may be translated to non-english. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ```