From: Duy Nguyen Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 08:56:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: add show-tracking option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <51949B85.40600@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: >> What if I want something in -vvvv except some in -vv? I think to avoid >> option explosion, maybe we can adopt --pretty=format:xxx from "git >> log" and let the user decideswhat (and how) to display. "pretty" code >> learns about alignment already, which may be useful here. >> -- >> Duy > > Sure, that is the big solution we've been talking about. Unify > for-each-ref formats and log formats and use that. After all, "git > branch" in list mode really is for-each-ref, and should be transparently > so; same goes for "git tag". Think "git rev-list" and "git ref-list"! Again I forgot about for-each-ref. Sounds like sharing code between for-each-ref and branch is a good thing to do. Then just add more candy placeholders from git-log like %C(xx). Sounds like a fun topic. > But I guess we'll be compabeaten ;) No idea what that last word means :( -- Duy