Hi,
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> $ git push --porcelain
>> PORCELAIN To git://foo.com/git/myrepo.git
>> PORCELAIN uptodate refs/heads/baz:refs/heads/baz 1234ab ba4321
>> PORCELAIN nonff refs/heads/bar:refs/heads/bar 2345cd 3456de
>>
>> This is an "positive" approach, in the sense that we don't remove
>> anything from the current output; we just add more printf("PORCELAIN")
>> lines to wherever is appropriate.
>
> Sorry, but I don't see what that would solve. For example, we used not to
> give the destination to the standard output stream, but that line carries
> a necessary information and Larry's series corrects that.
I sense a chicken-and-egg situation here.
Printing a "To: <destination>" to stdout is a correction as far as the
current non-prefixed output scheme is concerned.
If a prefixed scheme (or some other output scheme) is adopted, then
where, or whether, the "To: <destination>" is printed, is not relevant
to porcelain script writers - they just get ignored.
> In your "prefix with PORCELAIN" scheme, such a change will start adding a
> new line "PORCELAIN To ..." that older implementations may not be prepared
> to see.
The original --porcelain patch only "porcelained" the output for ref
updates, such as
= TAB refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master TAB [up to date]
- TAB :refs/heads/foobar TAB [deleted]
...
In addition, the "To: <destination>" patch --porcelain is fairly
recent - I don't think it has left 'pu', has it? Should we worry about
breaking compatibility on something not out yet?
--
Cheers,
Ray Chuan
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