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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] status: print stash info with --porcelain=v2 --show-stash
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:47:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1r4egct2.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211021222532.463375-3-oystwa@gmail.com> ("Øystein Walle"'s message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:25:32 +0200")

Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com> writes:

> The v2 porcelain format is very convenient for obtaining a lot of
> information about the current state of the repo, but does not contain
> any info about the stash. git status already accepts --show-stash but
> it's silently ignored when --porcelain=v2 is given.
>
> Let's add a simple line to print the number of stash entries but in a
> format similar in style to the rest of the format.

Who is the primary target audience of this feature?  IDEs that read
from "git status --porcelain"?

Whoever it is, if they bothered enough to pass an extra option
(i.e. "--show-stash") to their "git status" invocation, I wonder if
they want to know at least what "git stash list" would give you at
the same time.  After all, the --porcelain output is all about
machine readability and reducing the number of forks would be what
those people would be interested in, wouldn't it?  I dunno.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-21 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-21 22:25 [PATCH 0/2] Print stash info in the v2 porcelain format Øystein Walle
2021-10-21 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] status: count stash entries in separate function Øystein Walle
2021-10-21 23:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-21 22:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] status: print stash info with --porcelain=v2 --show-stash Øystein Walle
2021-10-21 23:47   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-10-22  0:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-10-22  0:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-22  1:19       ` Eric Sunshine

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