# Reduction in blanks in `git status` makes output pretty cramped 3 messages from 2019-12-31 to 2020-01-06. Participants: Anthony Sottile, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52545 ## Anthony Sottile, 2019-12-31 23:18 Subject: Reduction in blanks in `git status` makes output pretty cramped Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CA%2BdzEB%3Dm94egho%2B1UOGeDSFjjzwXYA-HncM-9C7NLLP%3DE3U2Jw%40mail.gmail.com ``` This is a comment on 7b098429355bb3271f9ffdf73b97f2ef82794fea https://github.com/git/git/commit/7b098429355bb3271f9ffdf73b97f2ef82794fea ``` ## Jeff King, 2020-01-06 21:23 Subject: Re: Reduction in blanks in `git status` makes output pretty cramped Message-ID: <20200106212343.GC980197@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200106212343.GC980197%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 03:18:17PM -0800, Anthony Sottile wrote: > This is a comment on 7b098429355bb3271f9ffdf73b97f2ef82794fea > > https://github.com/git/git/commit/7b098429355bb3271f9ffdf73b97f2ef82794fea I don't have much of an opinion myself (I didn't even notice, as I think it only affects the case where advice.statusHints is enabled). But there's more discussion in this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190430060210.79610-1-johnlinp@gmail.com/ about whether to add or remove blank lines. ;) +cc people who expressed opinions there ``` ## Anthony Sottile, 2020-01-06 23:06 Subject: Re: Reduction in blanks in `git status` makes output pretty cramped Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CA%2BdzEBmZrecxSPZAXTyB1DfL_GAPkhRRJTFcb5A%3DpAVpFJANzA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20200106212343.GC980197@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` > (I didn't even notice, as I think it only affects the case where advice.statusHints is enabled yeah this makes sense -- (unfortunately) advice.statusHints appears to be the default Anthony ```