Re: RFC: git status --amend

2015-04-03 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:57:48PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote: > > But I discarded it as a useless suggestion before writing it down, > > primarily because I couldn't come up with an explanation _why_ being > > able to say "git status --relative-to=next Makefile" is useful when > > on the 'master'

Re: RFC: git status --amend

2015-04-03 Thread David Aguilar
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 10:16:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Aguilar writes: > > > Would generalizing "status" to have a more gittish syntax make > > you feel less torn? > > One of my early draft responses included a one whose punch line was > "Why limit the comparison to HEAD and HEA

Re: RFC: git status --amend

2015-04-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
David Aguilar writes: > Would generalizing "status" to have a more gittish syntax make > you feel less torn? One of my early draft responses included a one whose punch line was "Why limit the comparison to HEAD and HEAD^ but no other point of reference?" But I discarded it as a useless suggesti

Re: RFC: git status --amend

2015-04-01 Thread David Aguilar
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:35:17AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:59:27PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote: > > > >> for frontends or scripts it would be helpful to be able to use "git > >> status" for getting the repository status compared to HEAD~1

Re: RFC: git status --amend

2015-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:59:27PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote: > >> for frontends or scripts it would be helpful to be able to use "git >> status" for getting the repository status compared to HEAD~1 instead of >> only HEAD (as provided by "git commit --amend" in the pre-fil

Re: RFC: git status --amend

2015-03-31 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:59:27PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote: > for frontends or scripts it would be helpful to be able to use "git > status" for getting the repository status compared to HEAD~1 instead of > only HEAD (as provided by "git commit --amend" in the pre-filled commit > message). >

RFC: git status --amend

2015-03-31 Thread Sven Strickroth
Hi, for frontends or scripts it would be helpful to be able to use "git status" for getting the repository status compared to HEAD~1 instead of only HEAD (as provided by "git commit --amend" in the pre-filled commit message). Thus, I'm suggesting to add a "--amend" parameter (or a parameter with