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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] status: really ignore config with --porcelain
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:04:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqa9mfv9bs.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8v1zd0du.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:55:09 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-24 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-24 12:45 [PATCH (!) 0/2] Fix serious regressions in latest master Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 12:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] status: really ignore config with --porcelain Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 13:51   ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-24 14:05     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 14:51       ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-24 16:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 16:50           ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-24 17:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 17:21               ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-24 18:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 19:30               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 22:24                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 19:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-28  1:40               ` Jeff King
2013-06-28  3:59                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-28 17:37                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-28 19:31                     ` Jeff King
2013-06-28 20:15                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 16:53           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 14:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 15:04       ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-06-24 15:50       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 12:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] commit: make it work with status.short Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-24 15:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 15:39     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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