From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:07:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --porcelain option to git-push
Message-ID: <7vtz249lpf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090623011001.GA15352@cthulhu>

Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org> writes:

> If --porcelain is used git-push will produce machine-readable output.  The
> output status line for each ref will be tab-separated and sent to stdout instead
> of stderr.  The full symbolic names of the refs will be given.  For example
>
> $ git push --dry-run --porcelain master :foobar 2>/dev/null \
>   | perl -pe 's/\t/ TAB /g'
>
> = TAB refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master TAB [up to date]
> - TAB :refs/heads/foobar TAB [deleted]
> ---

Thanks.  Sign-off?

On a tangent, this reminds me of something that I often find myself
wanting to do.  Currently I do:

	$ git push --dry-run
           A..B master -> master
        $ git log --oneline A..B ;# cut and paste A..B from the output
	$ git push

to achieve what I want; get an overview of what I'd be pushing as the
final sanity check before running the actual push.

I've been wondering if it would be a good idea to teach -v (or some other
option) to do this automatically.  That is,

	$ git push [--dry-run] [--summary[=<n>]]

would give the output from "git log --oneline [-n <n>] A..B".

No, I am not suggesting you to fold such an unrelated feature to your
patch at all.