The meaning of the letters used to show git status are not documented

[ariasuni]

exa displays two columns, representing the staged and unstaged states. Meaning of symbols by reading the source code:

• Not modified: -
• New: N
• Modified: M
• Deleted: D
• Renamed: R,
• Type changed: T
• Ignored: I
• Conflicted: U (unmerged)

This should be added exa’s documentation.

[msorens]

Yes, please! (Thank you for doing the digging, @ariasuni ! I was just about to do the same thing.)

I would like to make a further suggestion: use the same letters that git uses where possible. So close! 😁 , but new should be A instead of N at least (from https://git-scm.com/docs/git-status):

[ariasuni]

@ogham What do you think of the suggestion of @msorens, should exa use A for added to follow git’s already established convention?

[ibanezfr]

@ariasuni Do you know if it was added to the documentation? Or what convention was used in the end?

[eggbean]

They are the same letters using by git whatchanged, but N instead of A (as that wouldn't make sense if not staged) and the addition of U and I (which wouldn't come up in git whatchanged).

[ariasuni]

The convention is unchanged, and it’s in the man page.

exa is unmaintained, so if you have further comments, please look at the active fork eza instead (see #1243). Also see #1243