From: demerphq Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:58:36 GMT Subject: Re: `Git Status`-like output for two local branches Message-ID: <9b18b3110909050758k597f917fn3baefa5fdb4741a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090905081726.GA7109@coredump.intra.peff.net> 2009/9/5 Jeff King : > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:18:54AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:57, Jeff King wrote: >> >  2. Count the commits on each side that are not in the other. >> >> [...] >> >> >      You can also do that by parsing the output of: >> >       git rev-list --left-right $a...$b -- >> >> Perhaps it is useful to introduce a --left-right-count or such? > > I'm not opposed to that if it is something a lot of people found useful, > but I am not sure we have established that as the case (I am curious to > hear from Tim what his actual use case is). It would be useful in for instance prompt status line. At $work we have a number of people using a prompt that includes the result of parsing git-status, but something --left-right-count would be much nicer, and if i understand it, more efficient (although maybe im wrong). In the prompt they use a number of different unicode arrows to show what has happened, with a Y type thing for diverged. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"