Phil Hord <hordp@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> + if (state->substate==WT_SUBSTATE_NOMINAL) >>> status_printf_ln(s, color, >>> _("The current patch is empty.")); >> This looks weird. First, spaces around == (here and below). Then, the >> logic is unintuitive. The "if" suggests everything is allright, and the >> message below is very specific. This at least deserves a comment. > > Yes, I agree. It was less clear but more reasonable before I tried to > clear it up some. It's driven by the short-token printer. The state is > "you're in a 'git am' but I do not see any conflicted files. Therefore, > your patch must be empty." This was my guess, but I wouldn't have needed to guess if there was a comment in the code ;-). > I'll try to make this more explicit. Currently the short-status > version will say either "am" or "am \n conflicted" when a 'git am' is in > progress. The logical path to follow if I re-add 'git-am-empty' state > tracker is for this to now show either "am \n am-is-empty" or "am \n > conflicted". But I think I should suppress the "am-is-empty" report in > that case. What do you think I don't think you should remove it from the output (no strong opinion). My point was just that the code looked weird. >>> +static void wt_print_token(struct wt_status *s, const char *color, const char *token) >>> +{ >>> + color_fprintf(s->fp, color, "%s", token); >>> + fputc(s->null_termination ? '\0' : '\n', s->fp); >>> +} >> The output format seems to be meant only for machine-consumption. Is >> there any case when we'd want color? [...] > > [...]I thought I might be going back there, or that I might combine this > > with full 'git status' again somehow, and colors seemed appropriate > > still. > > [...] > > So I can remove this color decorator until someone finds a need for > > it. I'm fine with both options, with a slight preference for removing them. > My own use-case involves $PS1. That makes sense (indeed, the implementation of status hints was slightly inspired from what the bash prompt in contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh does). The next step could be to use your porcelain there instead of checking manually file existance. You may want to add a short note about this motivation in the commit message. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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