Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:09, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> At least one IRC user was scared away by the introductory "This is not >> a command the end user would want to run. Ever." to the point of not >> reading on. > > Arguably that's the point isn't it? To not have people who aren't > maintaining Git itself waste time on reading it. Junio C Hamano writes: > You would need to say what that IRC user needed to find out. Depending on > that, letting the user know that there is no point reading on early and > not waste his or her time may be a good thing. That was what the paragraph > was designed for. IOW, it is not to "scare" away, but to allow the users > to decide if they are intended audiences. Well, the original question was [*] <ribasushi> how do I write a batch-test (goes in a script, exit value matters only) to test if the current workdir is clean? <ribasushi> i.e. nothing staged/unstaged to commit <shruggar> last I looked, there was no "all in one" method :/ <shruggar> git diff -q && git diff —cached -q, perhaps <charon> ribasushi: . "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup" ; require_clean_worktree <shruggar> but I think that's ignoring something <ribasushi> lack of output of `git status -s` seems to be what I want <ribasushi> hmmm <ribasushi> charon: git-gh-setup's manpage does not seem to list what you gave me <ribasushi> and the manpage says that I should not be touching it... Leaving aside my worktree vs. work_tree mistake, he concluded that he should not be using it even though he is a script writer. Regardless, I don't really care enough about this one; let's just do the first patch (v2 upcoming) so that we have documentation to point people at. [*] http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2011-12-20#l1284 -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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