Re: [PATCH] fetch: show remote name instead of URL if available

> Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >     $ git fetch -v
> >     From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
> >      = [up to date]      html       -> origin/html
> >     ...
> 
> I see this full URL output as a nice reminder of what "origin" refers to,
> especially when you said "git fetch -v origin".  This is especially useful
> when you are fetching from different locations that house repositories of
> the same project (e.g. among my multiple git.git working trees on my
> notebook, some of them fetch from my private, primaty development machine
> and others from public k.org).
> 
> Changing this output ...
> 
> > Versus the new output:
> >
> >     $ ./git fetch -v
> >     From origin
> 
> ... this way feels like a regression to me.
> 
> > Alternatively, we could do something like
> >     From origin (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git)
> 
> That is much less problematic.
> 
> But let's step back a bit.  What problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> Are you trying to give a reminder that you are interacting with 'origin'
> when you said "git fetch -v" without saying where you are fetching from?
> I think that is a good thing to aim for (the same reasoning behind the
> comment of mine above).  If so, the ideal change from my gut feeling is to
> add an extra " (origin)" at the end, like so:
> 
> 	From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git (origin)
> 
> when and only when the fetch is done without mentioning any remote
> nickname; iow, "git fetch -v origin" or "git fetch -v git://.../git" won't
> get the extra " (origin)" at the end.