Re: [PATCH] branch: colorize branches checked out in a linked working tree the same way as the current branch is colorized

From: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2018, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20180927192804.GA27163@rigel>
In-Reply-To: <20180927181708.GA2468@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 02:17:08PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> Do we want to limit this to git-branch, though? Ideally any output you
> get from git-branch could be replicated with for-each-ref (or with
> a custom "branch --format").
> 
> I.e., could we have a format in ref-filter that matches HEAD, but
> returns a distinct symbol for a worktree HEAD? That would allow a few
> things:

I was going to suggest using dim green and green for elsewhere and here respectively, in a similar way how range-diff uses it to show different versions of the same diff.

But if we're open to change how branches are displayed maybe a config option like branch.format (probably not the best name choice) that can be set to the 'for-each-ref --format' syntax would be way more flexible.

e.g.
    branch.format='%(if:equals=+)...'

I think the different symbol and dimmed color would be a nice addition, but I am leaning towards giving the user the ultimate choice on how they want to format their output. (Maybe with dimmed plus symbol as default).

-- Cheers, Rafael Ascensão