Re: [PATCH 1/2] status: really ignore config with --porcelain

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

My knee-jerk reaction is that, because the
"--porcelain" output was designed to be extensible and scripts
reading from it is expected to ignore what it does not understand,
if the setting of status.branch is a problem, the reading side is
buggy and needs to be fixed.

It is extensible in the sense that the caller can provide more
command-line options to get more output (i.e. say --branch --porcelain),
but providing different results for the same call because of the
configuration file is broken IMHO.

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Matthieu Moy
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