On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:39:22PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > Hmm... everybody who doesn't like it is concerned about scripts and > sending it places, while the people who like it seem to be interested in > looking at the output. Maybe there should be an option that controls it, > with the default being to use -a+b for pipelines and informational stuff > for pager? To clarify my statement: no, I'm concerned about looking at it. That is, I don't think it will break scripts, but I think the output is potentially confusing to humans. But like I said before, it's just my intuition; I don't have real facts to back it up, so feel free to ignore. > (For that matter, maybe format-patch should be able to handle uncommitted > changes, and should hide what it did? What's with all these people faking > format-patch output with other commands, rather than having format-patch > actually generate suitable output in their situations?) I do it because I haven't actually committed the content. I dump the diff right into an email I'm already writing. -Peff -- 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
