Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 10.02.2009 12:45: ... >> Right now, "git status" is basically "git commit --dry-run", which may >> or may not be good, but certainly is not what people coming from other >> vcs expect. I would suggest having "git commit -n" replace "git status" >> if I hadn't done so already or if I dared to (I can't remember ;) ). > > I would much prefer that, if it had been done that way from the > beginning. But I think we are stuck with "git status" due to hysterical > raisins. ROTFTCOOTF! Now I know why I never liked those caricatures of grapes... >> "git ls-files" may do but has a different set of mode characters. I >> think that sums up what preceeded Junio's patch from October. > > But you only need to use it here to get the untracked files, so it > doesn't matter what it says about modified files. > > The big downside with the snippet I posted above is that it runs three > separate commands that go through the index. In theory, you could do it > in one pass. But wt-status _doesn't_ do that, since the diff > infrastructure isn't there (a long time ago, Junio had an experimental > parallel diff walker patch, but it never made it out of next). We completely agree. How do you suggest to progress? Go for the diff walker? For a (porc.) command like shortstatus I think going through the index 3 times isn't that bad, all disk access should be cached after the first run. Michael -- 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
