Victor Engmark <victor.engmark <at> terreactive.ch> writes: > Very good point. How about by default just running `git status` after a > successful checkout, and only printing the result if there are any > changes? That way: > 1) If no changes are pending, nothing is displayed. > 2) The user sees a *familiar* style output if anything changed. > 3) If there's an alias for "status", it would be used. I'm sold on this. Better documentation for checkout wouldn't hurt regardless, and I'm still planning on that when I get a chance; but better *behavior* is a clear win either way. Adding half a page of text to the docs explaining what each status char means is a hugely-inferior "solution" to simply not having an aberrant status-ish output in the first place. -- 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