From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDA120970 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756185AbdDMHUn (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 03:20:43 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-f44.google.com ([209.85.215.44]:35223 "EHLO mail-lf0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753286AbdDMHUl (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 03:20:41 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-f44.google.com with SMTP id 75so25202380lfs.2 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:20:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=wLScsaPfNHS3aElyTEzGnit2P3C2XgLNW4FLrunvN7g=; b=BFnTk8mzyRlSzaUK0A7kIQPdScyDhp67mD3SR0sOsX9OpH7KeR505go9pGbbVv7x3t gSxcmcti00gDld0BbWnnavFjo4dXPXDwe9BpbMq/NCbOvWKPeIw47IkckDts3RiP1pMX qJ/Z2XPQwrizXyHIGDJomoKXh64m53Wn0wrC648DsLp9+E1cIRDLR0bffOJ4JSwjn9Lc S+p+SNpvYhSrvcSbfscJay4V2V2/RzKBnYj2MGmI78maEJ6LPwGyvUi+GhXqENlQ34J7 YUaGOlq0hanQZ+xQlNI0vCS9DHqydyxMBAIvOfbrna8nUCZSqj+9i0GC3Crwdo+Uu1xa rUnw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=wLScsaPfNHS3aElyTEzGnit2P3C2XgLNW4FLrunvN7g=; b=B5BKoTKDUGzcA903pH0v5B3Sqqd+xqkR4trm926Kw0TO+Mvo+7C9QQMyjDHmtYIvMn l7ZczUpv2rOCI38Yb8rrxuqwgPNnGaVoRi0BtPcpmvPmQPxfpOlDTlpBUSYzxJtpYgZz xsgMfsO9gwA8z5p77emijzHyDliPgh0W255cI+3Wk/umIq8WHnKBtr+c55EcXVm1giQ2 Jm3kbPxXEsCZWk7/d8l0xvsRCTtF5nItObrruq1jckzxc6UUddmEOBcMbZictUP5dg4n 410LLqydV6qkWNZ2ylneDxtLt/POuKX5MlrUAXNtWwD27HNcut4L9Y80xdr4kawQiz2h gjEg== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/5URNceAk7BHeyUqB9KMWpB7DgYpN7qSO0RR6DNtVeXG5y8wvtB FmloUVhS3+Roqlw1764bbG+fmI5qV/c3 X-Received: by 10.25.216.212 with SMTP id r81mr591972lfi.66.1492068040158; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:20:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.17.155 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:20:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <2c3c8028cd057428758bb1e21a064a264936de90.1490968428.git.git@grubix.eu> From: Jacob Keller Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:20:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: show in-progress info for short status To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Michael J Gruber , Git mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jacob Keller writes: > >> Personally, I would want this to become the default and not have a new >> option to trigger it. I think we could also extend the porcelain >> format to include this information as well, but I'm not too familiar >> with how the v2 format extends or not. > > I think the general rule of thumb for --porcelain is that we can > freely introduce new record types without version bump, and expect > the reading scripts to ignore unrecognised records (we may need to > describe this a bit more strongly in our document, though), while > changes to the format of existing records must require a command > line option that cannot be turned on by default with configuration > (or a version bump, if you want to change the output format by > default). > > I am getting the impression that this "we are doing X" is a new and > discinct record type that existing readers can safely ignore? If > that is the case, it may be better to add it without making it > optional. Correct. But either way we should be free to change and extend the non-porcelain format without worry I thought? Thanks, Jake