Re: [PATCH 0/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1

> Andrew Sayers wrote:
>> +                                       case "$p" in
>> +                                               \<*\>*|\>*\<* ) p="<>" ;;
>> +                                               *\<*          ) p="<"  ;;
>> +                                               *\>*          ) p=">"  ;;
>> +                                               ""            ) p="="  ;;
>> +
>> +                                               # the following case shouldn't be possible
>> +                                               # if you see this, please report it as a bug
>> +                                               * ) p="?ERROR($p)?" ;;
>> +
>> +                                       esac
> 
> I didn't really like this bit, since rev-list has to format the output
> only so you can match it.  I realized that I too have written code in
> the past to detect which way this goes (in post-receive hooks), and/or
> the number of commits as per the request
> 
> John Tapsell wrote:
>> I hate to get all feature-bloat on you...
>>
>> But could it state the number of commits as well please? :) :)
> 
> So here's an additional patch to provide rev-list logic that supports
> this feature.  I have then tweaked your original patch to make use of
> it a u+7-5 style.
> 
> I'm not too picky about the exact style that it turns out to have in
> the end; I have used my own customized version ever since we started
> printing a space before the (master *+) dirtiness indicator.  However,
> I think we should try to be as unambiguous and short as possible.
> Hence I picked the 'u' prefix to avoid ambiguity with the dirtiness
> indicator.
> 
> 
> Andrew Sayers (1):
>   bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in
>     __git_ps1
> 
> Thomas Rast (1):
>   rev-list: introduce --count option
> 
>  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt     |    9 +++++
>  builtin/rev-list.c                     |   16 +++++++++
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  revision.c                             |    2 +
>  revision.h                             |    5 +++
>  t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh   |   29 ++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>