On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:53:44PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > (0) Do nothing. > > > > (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. > > And don't get me wrong. I think that for 1.5.0 you should really do (0). Well, if we're going to change the semantics of git-status, we would have to do it in 1.5.0 or wait until 1.6.0, wouldn't we? - 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