Re: wishlist: git info

From: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID: <47398B43.30408@users.sourceforge.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711131111220.4362@racer.site>

> Is slightly troubles me that you put so much emphasis on what I would call 
> "remote information".  I understand that in svn, your working directory 
> without the server is not very useful.  But we do not have that problem.

that is true. My usage pattern probably stems from the fact that I am a long term svn user :) And I use git for work now, where there is indeed some kind of central repository just as in a Subversion setting. In a fully decentralized setting the remote information is probably not as important, although you might still want to know what happens if you issue "git pull".

> FWIW I think a much better idea is to have that bash prompt that was 
> posted some months ago; there's not even a need to run a program manually 
> then!

a bash prompt is nice too, of course. But there is only so much information you can reasonably encode in the prompt. When you know the remote url (ok, this assumes a "centralized" model), branch, head commit and date of the head commit (this is just for humans), you know very precisely what you are looking at. For the more decentralized users some other information might be relevant, I don't know.

While the head commit hash is enough to identify a point in the revision history, the other information allows a human to identify the point in the revision history easily. So I can see what is checked out, how old the checkout is etc.

> His name is "Riesen", just like in the German translation of the famous 
> Newton statement.

sorry for the typo, I noticed it just the moment I had pressed send... Sometimes I really wish I could edit mails after sending them.

Thomas