Re: Fwd: git status options feature suggestion

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:10:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

One thing to keep in mind is what to do when you would want to detect
renames.  The parallel walk would be Ok but between HEAD and index there
could be renames involved, and at that point it would get quite tricky.
Once the index is in-core, I think it hurts us much to walk HEAD vs index
and index vs working tree in separate passes.

Assuming you meant "I _don't_ think it hurts us much" then OK, that
makes sense. I was just thinking it would be more elegant than holding
each list in memory and comparing, but really that is not all that
different than what diffcore does with the output queue.

I think it is perfectly fine to run the diff-index first, and keep the
result from it in a string_list, and then run "diff-files" and annotate
the string_list with the output from it.

Thanks, I think that is a sane direction to go in. And I agree that any
solution should be totally split from the actual output format, so we
can reuse it in "git status" if desired.

However, now that Shawn has revealed the existence of his super-secret
status replacement, I am going to wait to see that before moving any
further. :)

-Peff