new status output

[Martin Pool]

On 26/10/05, Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz> wrote:

> You all still talk just about status/ls. But there are other commands
> that produce similar output -- update, merge, commit... In these
> commands you need the whole output, but you still may want to
> machine read their output (not with simple scripts, but in some kind of
> UI, build server, patch queue manager...). Also the headsing mean the
> output can't be produced incrementally, which might or might not be
> desired.

That's true - and indeed at the moment those other commands produce a
different format, with per-line markers.  Perhaps this is the most
reasonable thing.

--
Martin