Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Eric Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > (The ls-files -t codes need better documentation. If I get detailed enough > > answers, I will write some.) > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/126516 > > In short, "git ls-files -t" was written long ago, never tested, and > probably mostly used by no one. It has a very strange behavior, it's > not just the doc. I'd advise against using it. It sounds very much to me as though this feature should be scheduled for deletion. > "git status --porcelain" is probably what you want: > > --porcelain > Give the output in a stable, easy-to-parse format for > scripts. Currently this is identical to --short output, but > is guaranteed not to change in the future, making it safe > for scripts. Yes, this looks like what I would want, all right - if the status codes were actually *comprehensible*! We should tackle this right now, because VC is not the last front end that will need to parse the format and at least I am willing to patch your docs based on what I learn. Most of your other customers won't do that. I'm going to start a separate thread about this. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- 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