Re: wishlist: git info

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20071112234115.GJ2918@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <4738D8AA.1030604@users.sourceforge.net>

Thomas Neumann, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 23:50:18 +0100:

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> >> 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.
> probably "current working directory" was not the best way to phrase it.
> I mean state of the repository, which in my case is a clone of a central
> repository.
> My commands show (ignoring formatting): 1. the remote repositories with
> URL 2. the current head commit hash 3. the date of the head commit.

Don't you want to know where the remote repo is at?

> Which gives a pretty decent idea about the state of the repository.

...which in Git-lingo would be misunderstood as the output of git-status :)

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> > Would
> >
> >     git remote -r -v && git log --max-count=1 --pretty=format:'%h %s'
> >
> > do what you think is what you need?
> perhaps, the first command gives me an error (git 1.5.2.5). This here is
> nearly ok

Ach, make it "git remote -v". It does exactly showing of the url.

Dunno what I wanted the "-r" for. Probably left from thinking of "git branch -r" (which shows remote branches).

> git remote && git log --max-count=1 --pretty=format:'%H %cD'
> 
> except the missing URL from git remote (but perhaps your options include
> it with a newer git version, will test).

It is there since 1.5.3-rc1