Re: [PATCH] git-explain

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"Martin Langhoff" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I like what it does too... but why not as part of git-status?

The biggest reason was that it is a demonstration of concepts,
not replacement of anything.  Maybe "git status" can be replaced
with something like that if people worked on it enough.

Okay, so what do people need? This is evidently a question for people who 
are not intimately familiar with the core of Git. So, where are you 
newbies when we need you? Speak up!

Surely, you hit a wall on the road, where you really wanted to ask "git 
wtf"?

The current use of "git status" inside "git commit" needs to be revamped 
if we pursue this further, though.  Because one of the points the "what 
state is this repository in" check "explain" does is to define what 
operations are sensible in each state, and most likely in many state it 
would not make _any_ sense to run "git commit" (say, in the middle of 
"bisect").

That is right, but it is only a matter of having a command line switch to 
suppress what you do not need for the commit message. After all, "status" 
really should tell you about the status of the working directory. The fact 
that we have the _same_ script for "commit" and "status" is no excuse!

Ciao,
Dscho