> (ITYM "remove as many hurdles as possible").
yes, I messed up rewriting that sentence from "having as few hurdles
as possible" to "removing as many hurdles as possible"
> So far, we have had the following categories suggested: dirty, staged, dirty+staged, untracked. Are there any
others?
The two workflows that make most sense to me personally are:
1. staged (indent anything that you're staging for a commit)
2. dirty+staged+untracked (indent anything you've been working on that
is not committed yet)
The obvious way of having --dirty, --staged, and --untracked flags
would require 3 flags for this second (to me seemingly) common
operation. That seems quite unfortunate. So I would propose the
following two flags for those purposes:
1. --staged/--cached (--cached is in line with git, but I personally
think --staged is clearer, git has --staged-only but that seems long
for no reason)
2. --uncommitted
And maybe for completeness we could have the following flags, so you
could target any combination of staged/untracked/dirty files:
3. --untracked (untracked files only)
4. --dirty (tracked files with changes that are not staged)
But I don't know in what workflow people would actually use them.
> Another issue is whether or not to restrict these to files under the current directory. I think we probably should,
orat least provide a --relative option.
Good point, I think it makes sense to restrict it to the current
directory by default. You can always cd to the root of the repo if you
want to format everything.