Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> What are our plans to help existing scripts people have written over >> time, especially before "status -s" was invented, that will be >> broken by use of this? > > I thought that our response to parsing the long output of "git status" > was always "you are doing it wrong". The right way has always been to > run the plumbing tools yourself, followed eventually by the --porcelain > mode to "git status" being blessed as a convenient plumbing. > > I will not say that people might not do it anyway, but at what point do > we say "you were warned"? OK, sounds good enough. -- 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