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=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham 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 028211FA14 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756017AbdDMGJj (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:09:39 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:50223 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbdDMGJh (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:09:37 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBE6818E5; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:09:34 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=OxgzzIeuDyqYsw7S5HZNSfke1Ck=; b=PCjojj Jl0ypt/8qwc9Ic8WVFR5I3xVGkv2OuvVaJYZEm/beMA4R/aLYLfNim3zLJRja7Oh jAvSFq/7cv8iXfM4rsEh1I4PlGiTxTZqM1vZ6zs348ONRHKXXXImvjzIp1/IUK4o 6wT5q7yiXxpuMm+tq7VZ1PbxlIEOeZyBOb8po= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Lzqmfw91LuwnLx2Rzebr+/Lf8S1ZRxe3 QeW5Cl/X6z5dMHRHDIaWpL8tx9HPwvqf3GbFg6BpZo+my3JnYfE0pVBIeJcAkV4K AQDBDnPTT/rh6ZBUbAeUOP2LOPZobwGeBwmqJKpzayY76SBe5VwX33JgRG+Xe6Aj qhcwQpS8QHM= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26997818E4; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:09:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90909818E3; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:09:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jacob Keller Cc: Michael J Gruber , Git mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: show in-progress info for short status References: <2c3c8028cd057428758bb1e21a064a264936de90.1490968428.git.git@grubix.eu> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:09:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Jacob Keller's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:18:01 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C39610F0-200F-11E7-ABD9-C260AE2156B6-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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.