From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:18:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: show branch name if possible in in-progress info Message-ID: <7vobg8rmi4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Matthieu Moy writes: > Not HEAD, but .git/rebase-merge/onto, i.e. the target of the rebase. > Ideally, I would have loved to see "rebasing master on origin/master", > but I do not think the target ref name is stored during rebase. Perhaps do it with --format=%s then. It often is useless to know only the commit object name (or the branch name for that matter, as you wouldn't know what exact commit the branch tip happens to have) you are rebasing onto.