Re: [PATCH] status: show in-progress info for short status

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> 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.