Re: [PATCHv5 1/3] wt-status.*: better advices for git status added

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

Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:

>   $ git status --sequencer
>   You have unmerged paths.
>   You are in an am session.
>   You are in the middle of an interactive rebase.
>
>   $ git status --porcelain --sequencer
>   airu
>
> The "--porcelain --sequencer" combination I am imagining here would
> show the status as a script-parseable sequence of single-letter
> indicators telling the status of these same various conditions:
>   u - unmerged paths
>   a - git-am session
>   i - interactive rebase
>   r - rebase
>   c - cherry-pick
>   m - merge
> etc.

Some people seem to think that machine-readable has to mean
unreadable cryptic line noises.  It's a disease.

If you have to write "etc.", you clearly do not know what the
range of possible values of these things will eventually be.

And I do not think it is your fault not to know what we would want
to add in the future.  But it is your fault to choose unreadable
cryptic line noises as an output format.

Just spell them out, and do not mark them for translation.