Hi, On Sat, 17 May 2008, André Goddard Rosa wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On May 16, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 15 May 2008, André Goddard Rosa wrote: > >> > >>>>> This patch will make git a little more human friendly, reporting > >>>>> "file.txt: has local changes". > >>>> > >>>> Documentation/git-checkout.txt should also change in this case, > >>>> otherwise users will see different output to that described and > >>>> possibly get confused if following along with the examples. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I like the idea too. > >> > >> No comment on the concern that it might break people's scripts? None? > > > > > > How about an ugly hack? Look to see if stdout is a tty, if so spit out the > > more human-readable version, otherwise spit out the old version >:-) > > Is this user interface set on stone? I think we should reserve the right > to improve always. Umm. As has been mentioned, this is not a "user interface". The message you are seeing comes from a _plumbing_ program, i.e. something _not_ meant for human consumption. I still think that it might be better to add a command line option with a custom message, because that would _not_ break backwards-compatibility. Thankyouverymuch, Dscho
