From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 02:14:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ls-remote: print URL when no repo is specified
Message-ID: <C21B68F7-E430-4BCA-A1D1-80446B0B76DE@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinxm8hwX53LE9_7rDPoKs9UnGAyFFfVcoh-WGxE@mail.gmail.com>


On May 13, 2010, at 23:07, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:

>> When an end user does not know which remote ls-remote would be talking to
>> by default, what else does he *not* know?  Probably which remote "pull"
>> would be fetching from and what branch it would be merging with?  Doesn't
>> he have a better command to use to learn that information to reorient
>> himself when he is lost that way?
> 
> I'm not sure if there's a command to determine the remote - I'd be
> interested to know it, if there's one.

What git seems to be missing is a "git info" command, which
would print out essentially something like what "svn info" does:
name of remote repo that we're tracking, name of current branch,
date/author/subject of last commit.

Regards,
  -Geert