On 2023-10-24 04:03, Junio C Hamano wrote:
I think the "use more verbose report format to help relatively inexperienced folks, in exchange for spending more screen real estate" is a good direction to think about this thing. I am not personally interested in adding such support all that much myself, but one piece of advice I can offer those who are interested is not to be too deeply attached to the word "table". ... snip ... So be very careful when choosing what to call this new thing, and avoid naming it after the implementation details (e.g., in what particular shape the data gets presented) that may turn out not to be the most important part of the concept.
Totally agreed, "table" simply sneaked in and remained here as the term. Perhaps "<command>.verbose = extra" or something similar would be a good choice.
[Footnote] * FWIW, "git status -s" is a tabular presentation. Maybe we can add a more verbose form of "-s" and be done with it for the command?
That's also an option.
