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Re: Show all branches and ahead/behind states

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 14, 2015, 22:38 UTC
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<20150514223827.GB21149@peff.net>
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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:13:15PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
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> > git for-each-ref --format '%(HEAD) %(refname:short) %(upstream:short) %(upstream:track) %(subject)' refs/heads
> 
> Great idea. For some reason I can't apply coloring though:
> 
> for-each-ref --format '%(HEAD) %(refname:short) %C(bold
> blue)%(upstream:track)%C(reset)' refs/heads
> 
> Output:
> 
> hotfix/4.2.3.1 %C(bold blue)[ahead 1, behind 1]%C(reset)

It's spelled "%C(bold blue)" in the --pretty formats, but in for-each-ref, it's "%(color:bold blue)". Unifying these is one of those things that has been on the radar for a long time, but nobody has quite gotten around to it.

-Peff
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