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[suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

From
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqudsi@neosmart.net>
Date
Jun 15, 2017, 23:43 UTC
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Hello all,

I hope it is not considered too forward of me for my first post to this list to be a suggestion on a change to git’s behavior (though not in any functional manner); but a persistent frustration for me and everyone I’ve worked with (so, yes, 100% based off of anecdata) has been that the output of `git status` does not include the commit or commit-ish, and one must resort to a `git rev-parse HEAD` call.

I apologize unreservedly if this matter has already been discussed and put to rest; I attempted to search the archives for a reference to this suggestion but was not met with any matches.

Additionally, if this list is not the right place to make such a suggestion, then I would appreciate if someone could kindly point me in the correct direction and apologize for littering.

Thank you kindly,

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies

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  1. Mahmoud Al-QudsiJun 15, 2017
  2. Samuel LijinJun 15, 2017
  3. Mahmoud Al-QudsiJun 16, 2017
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  5. Mahmoud Al-QudsiAug 7, 2017
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