Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> cat > expect << EOF >> -file2: locally modified >> +Unstaged changes after reset: >> +M file2 > > It simply feels backwards when plumbing output says something in human > language (e.g. "needs update") while Porcelain output spits out a cryptic > M or U. If the goal is human-readability and user-friendliness, The goal here is just consistency. And I do consider 'git diff --name-status' as porcelain. > shouldn't we rather say: > > Path with local modifications: > file2 > > or something? Why not, but if we do, we should also remove this "M" from other places. It was already there in one error message given by 'git rebase' in a non-clean tree (and you just accepted a patch giving the same output for another one). -- Matthieu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html