Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes:
>> 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.
Somebody who feels strongly about this can propose a design.
Although I am not particularly fond of the current output, I am
not volunteering ;-).
It would be nicer if the proposal was accompanied by a patch,
but that is not a requirement for discussion.
The points that design would address should include:
- set of labels (full list)
modified, same, renamed?, untracked, ...
- field ordering (good point by Andreas)
- what to do _if_ we choose to do rename detection? you need
two pathnames.
- alignment (good point by Andreas)
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