Re: [RFC/PATCH] show tracking branches with their associated branch names

From: Santhosh Kumar Mani <santhoshmani@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2011, 11:23 UTC
Message-ID: <1323516226.1698.80.camel@sdesktop>
In-Reply-To: <4EE32C1B.8070306@lyx.org>

On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 10:53 +0100, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

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> Op 10-12-2011 8:40, Santhosh Kumar Mani schreef:
> > The "git branch" command, by default, displays the local branches. There
> > is no visual distinction made between the tracking branches and normal
> > local branches. This patch enables the "git branch" to display
> > tracking info for tracking branches:
> >
> > Before this patch:
> >    $ git branch
> >    * master
> >      local
> >
> > After this patch:
> >    $ git branch
> >    * master [origin/master]
> >      local
> >
> >
> Did you try "git branch -vv" ?
>

Yes. I did. It is too verbose as it meant to be.

This patch distinguishes between the tracking and non-tracking local branches.

I use a lot of tracking branches and they track different branches. I tend find this feature useful to know which branch tracks what.

Of course, I could get this information in different ways. But it makes sense to have this information displayed by default.

> Vincent

Regards, Santhosh.