Re: [PATCH v3] status: show the branch name if possible in in-progress info

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2013, 16:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmwviu3lx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D_kSrJYagxo1LWt=P8XKj9F9_yAwH3vzQWQOi+yvP8kg@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Missing description.  Stealing from the link you sent:
>>
>>         The typical use-case is starting a rebase, do something else, come back
>>         the day after, run "git status" or make a new commit and wonder what
>>         in the world's going on. Which branch is being rebased is probably the
>>         most useful tidbit to help, but the target may help too.
>>
>>         Ideally, I would have loved to see "rebasing master on origin/master",
>>         but the target ref name is not stored during rebase, so this patch
>>         writes "rebasing master on a78c8c98b" as a half-measure to remind
>>         future users of that potential improvement.
>>
>>         Signed-off-by: <...>
>
> Looking good. Junio, do you need a new patch mail or can you just
> amend the commit message?

I'd like to see you either

 - send a reroll, making it clear it is a reroll, or
 - tell me to amend.

instead of asking which one I would prefer ;-) One less message I have to respond to that way.

"commit --amend" done.