Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing

Eric Raymond [off-list ref] writes:

First, the documentation issues, in roughly increasing order of severity:
...

These all fall within "Patches welcome" category (meaning: I agree the
documentation can be improved and I don't object to changing them).

D. How do I tell the conflict/no-conflict cases apart?
...
Illustrative case: I see the status code "DD". How do I distinguish
between case 4 ("deleted from index") and case 10 ("unmerged, both
deleted")?

Is that DD really "illustrative", or did you mean to say "only/sole"?

You should never get "DD" in non-conflicting case.  I think I was fairly
careful not to make them ambiguous when I did that code, but apparently I
wasn't so careful about the documentation.

Thanks for going through this area with fine comb.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 1cab91b..313dd04 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and `Y` shows the status of the work tree.  For untracked paths, `XY` are
               [MD]   not updated
     M        [ MD]   updated in index
     A        [ MD]   added to index
-    D        [ MD]   deleted from index
+    D         [ M]    deleted from index
     R        [ MD]   renamed in index
     C        [ MD]   copied in index
     [MARC]           index and work tree matches