From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:58:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Message-ID: <20071104045800.GB12359@segfault.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711030101340.21255@xanadu.home>

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:32:48AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> This makes the fetch output much more terse and prettier on a 80 column 
> display, based on a consensus reached on the mailing list.  Here's an 
> example output:

Thank you for this; it was at the end of a very long todo list for me.

> Receiving objects: 100% (5439/5439), 1.60 MiB | 636 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (4604/4604), done.
> From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>  ! [rejected]        html -> origin/html  (non fast forward)
>    136e631..f45e867  maint -> origin/maint  (fast forward)
>    9850e2e..44dd7e0  man -> origin/man  (fast forward)
>    3e4bb08..e3d6d56  master -> origin/master  (fast forward)
>    fa3665c..536f64a  next -> origin/next  (fast forward)
>  + 4f6d9d6...768326f pu -> origin/pu  (forced update)
>  * [new branch]      todo -> origin/todo

One nice thing about this format is that it works equally well for
"push" (changing "From" to "To" and reversing the order of the
branches). Comments?

-Peff