Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:18:03PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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What are our plans to help existing scripts people have written over
time, especially before "status -s" was invented, that will be
broken by use of this?

I thought that our response to parsing the long output of "git status"
was always "you are doing it wrong". The right way has always been to
run the plumbing tools yourself, followed eventually by the --porcelain
mode to "git status" being blessed as a convenient plumbing.

I will not say that people might not do it anyway, but at what point do
we say "you were warned"?

It already has changed.  At cPanel, we had code that broke with a new
version of git because the output of git status changed between 1.7.11
and 1.8.3.  We fixed it to use --porcelain and had no problems.

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