Junio C Hamano wrote:
Why do people think mysterious single letter abbreviation is
better than spelled out words in an output meant for human
consumption?
Familiarity, I suspect.
I agree that it would be useful if we had a tool that showed the
two status that matter for each file, grouped together on one
line, e.g.
HEAD->index index->files
------------------------------------------------
hello.c unmodified modified
world.c modified unmodified
frotz.c new unmodified
...
garbage.c~ ??? n/a
for the current index file and the current HEAD commit.
Could we have 'same' or some such instead of 'unmodified'? It's a bit
close to 'modified' for the eye to find it quickly.
You obviously need to learn how to read it though. The first
column means what you _would_ commit if you just said "git
commit" without doing anything else now; the second column is
what you _could_ commit if you did some update-index and then
said "git commit" (or ran "git commit" with paths arguments).
Pretty-printing will be easier if the filename is last, and it will look
a lot neater if all columns are aligned.
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