From: Santhosh <santhoshmani@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:19:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] show tracking branches with their associated branch names
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> It makes sense to make the various information available, but it does not
> mean it makes sense to add it by default for everybody at all. Given that
> against all common sense, many newbie web-tips and third-party documents
> suggest "git branch | sed -ne 's/^\* //p'" as a way to find the current
> branch in scripts, I am sure such a change will cause trouble to many
> while only helping a few.
>

You certainly have a point.

> I wouldn't mind a new option --verbose-format=... that takes various
> formatting letters similar to how --pretty=format:... does, though.
>

I will explore this option and see if it is worth the trouble.
Probably I can accomplish this locally with an alias.

~Santhosh.