Re: [PATCH v4 10/13] branch: add --column

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2012, 05:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AdSh_XH4o29yfEG8AxUK-=+zdeLanZA7C81qExiJQceQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwr83ldfz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

2012/2/4 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

> I am not sure about the utility of columnar output for "git branch" in the
> short form.  You no longer can just scan the leftmost column to scan for
> '*' to see the current branch.

I rely on color for that. Without color you may need to scan more columns for '*'. Though I would really like to see "git branch --current" added to show just current branch if I'm on colorless terminal.

-- 
Duy

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