Re: Fwd: git status options feature suggestion

Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:41:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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And just make it mimic whatever folks accustomed to "svn st" would expect,
modulo we would need two status letters to signal difference between
(HEAD, index), and (index, worktree).  Perhaps three if you want to show
difference between (HEAD, worktree) while at it.

I remember a long time ago you started on a parallel diff walker that
could diff the working tree, the index, and a tree at once. Do you
remember the issues with it?

I think that would be the right tool here to show each file only once,
but with multiple status flags. Something like:

  A M foo

I have a tool that I'll be open-sourcing later this year, but it does
something like that:

  project foo/                        branch master
   Am   foo
   M-   bar
   R-   orig => dest ( 95%)

Line coloring is red on lines with unstaged stuff in the working
directory (3rd column, lower case letters) and green on lines that
are fully staged (3rd column is a '-').

The tool is in Python, but I'm just scraping the output of
`diff-index -M --cached HEAD` and diff-files to get that
display.  The status letters are exactly those given out by
diff-index/diff-files, but the diff-files output is lowercased.

Scott Chacon has seen the tool output and likes it; there's a tech
talk that will be posted on YouTube soon where he and I are sort
of talking about it.

Sorry I can't say too much more about it yet.  But I'm trying to
say that both Scott and I like a denser display like this.

-- 
Shawn.