Re: git status options feature suggestion

Teemu Likonen wrote:

Wincent Colaiuta [off-list ref] writes:

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I think if you're introducing a different command then you should make
sure it doesn't happen to be an abbreviation of an existing one. It
would be better to give it some other name (info, foo, whatever). If
svn people then want to make an "st" alias pointing to it they're free
to do so.

In Subversion and Bazaar "info" command gives mostly information about
the repository itself. They don't talk about individual files at all.
"status" is the command (also in Mercurial) for getting information
about the current state of files in the tree.

I think it would be really sad if "git status" can't be extended to
match people's needs. I don't like the idea of a new name for such
status command. It's a kind of "why git people always invent new names
for familiar commands?" thing.

Well, the solution is fairly simple then. Just make it configurable and
set it in your ~/.gitconfig. It's not my itch to scratch though. I
loathe the sparse output from cvs/svn/whatnot and would be just as happy
if I never had to look at it again. I can understand its usefulness for
scripting, but 'git status' is porcelain so for that purpose it really
belongs somewhere else.

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