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Re: [PATCH] branch: make -v useful

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 7, 2021, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID
<60be6768d74bc_3bc33208cf@natae.notmuch>
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<87h7i94ola.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> >> and I think the commit messages should discuss whether we break this
> >> promise of having consistent output between "status" and "branch -v"
> >> now.
> >
> > But we don't with "branch -vv".
> 
> I think the wording there needs to be changed in any case, I'm not sure
> what it's supposed to mean.
> 
> I think the "show the relationship between" there is referring to the
> ahead/behind relationship, or maybe it's just speaking more generally
> about the short (branch -v[-v]) v.s. long (git status) blurb we show
> about the branch status overall.

I was going to do this, but given than most of my proposals to update the documentation are rejected (or similar), I think I'll just do the minimal changes for now.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 5, 2021
  3. Jeff KingJun 5, 2021
  4. Felipe ContrerasJun 7, 2021
  5. Jeff KingJun 8, 2021
  6. Felipe ContrerasJun 8, 2021
  7. Jeff KingJun 8, 2021
  8. Felipe ContrerasJun 8, 2021
  9. Kerry, RichardJun 8, 2021
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  12. Felipe ContrerasJun 10, 2021
  13. Kerry, RichardJun 25, 2021
  14. Felipe ContrerasJun 25, 2021
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  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 7, 2021
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