[RFC/PATCH] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

2013-08-28 Thread Matthieu Moy
Historically, git status needed to prefix each output line with '#' so that the output could be added as comment to the commit message. This prefix comment has no real purpose when git status is ran from the command-line, and this may distract users from the real content. Allow the user to

Re: [RFC/PATCH] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

2013-08-28 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 8/28/2013 10:32, schrieb Matthieu Moy: Historically, git status needed to prefix each output line with '#' so that the output could be added as comment to the commit message. This prefix comment has no real purpose when git status is ran from the command-line, and this may distract users

Re: [RFC/PATCH] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #

2013-08-28 Thread Matthieu Moy
Johannes Sixt j.s...@viscovery.net writes: How does your solution work when dirty submodules are involved and submodule status is included?f Badly ;-). I didn't notice the subcommand call for submodules summary. It's a bit more tricky to get right, as the git sumbodule summary --for-status