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[PATCH] Add color slots for branch names in "git status --short --branch"

From
Stephen Kent <smkent@smkent.net>
Date
Apr 20, 2017, 05:57 UTC
Message-ID
<201704556286334.8b7dc718029e6dd189dadb3703bfa@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kent <smkent@smkent.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt               | 5 ++++-
 builtin/commit.c                       | 4 ++++
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 475e874..96e9cf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1137,7 +1137,10 @@ color.status.<slot>::
 	`untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git),
 	`branch` (the current branch),
 	`nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
-	to red), or
+	to red),
+	`localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names,
+	respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the
+	status short-format), or
 	`unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes).
 
 color.ui::
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 4e288bc..43846d5 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1263,6 +1263,10 @@ static int parse_status_slot(const char *slot)
 		return WT_STATUS_NOBRANCH;
 	if (!strcasecmp(slot, "unmerged"))
 		return WT_STATUS_UNMERGED;
+	if (!strcasecmp(slot, "localBranch"))
+		return WT_STATUS_LOCAL_BRANCH;
+	if (!strcasecmp(slot, "remoteBranch"))
+		return WT_STATUS_REMOTE_BRANCH;
 	return -1;
 }
 
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 1150164..f0542b6 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -2377,7 +2377,9 @@ _git_config ()
 		color.status.added
 		color.status.changed
 		color.status.header
+		color.status.localBranch
 		color.status.nobranch
+		color.status.remoteBranch
 		color.status.unmerged
 		color.status.untracked
 		color.status.updated
-- 
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