From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:17:26 GMT
Subject: Re: `Git Status`-like output for two local branches
Message-ID: <20090905081726.GA7109@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0909020118m2fe2e6e1g79cc83ce941ac000@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:18:54AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:57, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >  2. Count the commits on each side that are not in the other.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >      You can also do that by parsing the output of:
> >       git rev-list --left-right $a...$b --
> 
> Perhaps it is useful to introduce a --left-right-count or such?

I'm not opposed to that if it is something a lot of people found useful,
but I am not sure we have established that as the case (I am curious to
hear from Tim what his actual use case is).

-Peff