On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:00:37AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > (1) We keep the current "git-status [-v] [-a] [[-i|-o] <paths...>]" > command line and do the necessary index manipulation > in-core without writing it out (see git-commit.sh for > details of what it involves). > > (2) We drop the support for any command line parameter from > "git-status", apply my two patches for Marco to > "git-runstatus", and rename "git-runstatus" to > "git-status". > > If I have to pick between the two, I would probably pick (2). > While (1) would essentially mean doing "git-commit" entirely > in-core without writing the index out until we really make the > commit, which is a good thing in itself in the longer term, it > is out of the question this late in the game for 1.5.0. If you end up doing (2), may I suggest making the functionality of "git-status" today available as "git-commit -n"? It is something useful, so we shouldn't lose it, and -n meaning --no-action is a well accepted convention for Unix commands. - Ted - 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