Re: [RFC/PATCH] shortstatus v1

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 10.02.2009 12:45:
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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...

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"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