Hi, On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Just to avoid later headaches... please look at your commit titles > and imagine how they will look when listed among 400+ other changes > when they are included in a future release in "git shortlog" output. > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] Per-file output for Porcelain Status V2 > > Subject: status: per-file output for --porcelain=v2 > > or something like that, perhaps? > > > This commit sets up version 2 porcelain status and > > defines the format of detail lines. This includes > > the usual XY and pathname fields. It adds the various > > file modes and SHAs and the rename score. For regular > > entries these values reflect the head, index and > > worktree. For unmerged entries these values reflect > > the stage 1, 2, and 3 values. > > Also, we usually do not say "This commit does this and that". > > See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more details regarding the > above two points (and more). Maybe something like this: -- snipsnap -- status: per-file output for --porcelain=2 The output of `git status --porcelain` leaves out many details that, say, an IDE would need to know about the current status. Let's introduce version porcelain status v2 that adds the various file modes and SHAs and the rename score. For regular entries these values reflect the head, index and worktree. For unmerged entries these values reflect the stage 1, 2, and 3 values. -- 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