#18 git v1.8.5 changed the out on "git status"

[boringuy]

Git v1.8.5 changed the output of status:

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)

nothing to commit, working directory clean

Notice the "#" at the beginning of the lines are gone, here are the output from v1.8.4:

$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Any plan to fix this and better yet append "--porcelain -b" for the status command to be future proof? I will try to fix it myself but my perl and regex is not that good.

[justin stofle]

I was able to fix this by commenting out lines 2715-2718 and changing the regex on line 2720 to s/^(?:# )?(?:On branch |Not currently on any branch.)(.+)?\n?//

Lines 2714 through 2720 now look like this:

my ($premove);
#while ($msg =~ s/(^[^#].*\n)//)
#{
# $premove .= $1;
#}

die "gits unexpected status output (missing branch): $msg" unless ($msg =~ s/^(?:# )?(?:On branch |Not currently on any branch.)(.+)?\n?//);