Re: Improving the git remote command

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 26, 2014, 12:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20140826124027.GE29180@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <53FC537C.4080206@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:29:32AM +0200, Rémy Hubscher wrote:

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> I'd like to add a list parameter to the `git remote` command.
> 
> We already have:
>  
>  - `git remote add`
>  - `git remote rename`
>  - `git remote delete`
> 
> I often write `git remote list` before finaly using `git remote -v` but
> it isn't intuitive.

Right now the list operation is done by giving no arguments at all. This is a bit unlike other parts of git, which would usually define "git remote list" and then say that if no command is given, "list" is the default.

But...

> I am proposing to add `git remote list` as a shortcut for `git remote -v`

This is somewhat different. I would have expected "git remote list" to do the same thing as "git remote" (i.e., list without "-v"). I guess it does not have to, though.

Perhaps "-v" should have been the default all along. I do not use "git remote" myself, so I don't know if "-v" is what most people use. But changing the output of "git remote" now is probably a bad thing (I expect some people may depend on parsing it to get the list of remotes; they should probably use the git-config plumbing to do the same thing, but it's actually rather tricky to do it that way).

-Peff