Re: wishlist: git info

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20071112222106.GE2918@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <fhad5q$iia$1@ger.gmane.org>

Thomas Neumann, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 21:30:56 +0100:

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> while git is pleasant to use in everyday work, there is one svn feature
> which is miss dearly, namely "svn info". svn info can give information
> about specific file objects, but I think its main feature is to use it
> without any path and thus just describe the current project.
> I use this a lot to quickly find out to which remote repository the
> current directory belongs (yes, some work projects tend to look very
> similar...) and what is the current state of the directory.
> 
> As a crude approximation, "git info" should print something like:
> cat .git/config | grep url
> git show | head -3

you're better of just running "gitk --all" at this point. It'll show remote branches (with the names of remote repos prepended) and their relations to the local repo.

> Probably not the most intelligent way to compute it, but you get the
> idea. git info should give a brief overview over the current working
> directory.

Like what? None of the commands you suggested even touch it. Would

    git remote -r -v && git log --max-count=1 --pretty=format:'%h %s'

do what you think is what you need?

May I suggest you to consider just running "git fetch -v"?