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Re: [PATCH 4/4] branch: add '--show-description' option

From
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2018, 05:17 UTC
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On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 5:54 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 'git branch' has an option to edit a branch's description, but lacks
> the option to show that description.
>
> Therefore, add a new '--show-description' option to do just that, as a
> more user-friendly alternative to 'git config --get
> branch.$branchname.description':
>   [...]
>   - errors out with a proper error message when the given branch
>     doesn't exist (but exits quietly with an error code when the
>     branch does exit but has no description, just like the 'git config'
s/exit/exist/
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>     query does).
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
> @@ -737,6 +741,35 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> +       } else if (show_description) {
> +               [...]
> +               if (!argc) {
> +                       if (filter.detached)
> +                               die(_("cannot show description on detached HEAD"));
> +                       branch_name = head;
> +               } else if (argc == 1)
> +                       branch_name = argv[0];
> +               else
> +                       die(_("cannot show description of more than one branch"));

Aside from paralleling the single branch accepted by --edit-description, why this limitation? (Just curious; I don't feel strongly one way or the other.)

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Message 4 of 10 in “branch: add '--show-description' option”
  1. 0/4 branch: add '--show-description' optionSZEDER Gábor, Jan 1, 2018
  2. 2/4 t3200: fix a misindented lineSZEDER Gábor, Jan 1, 2018
  3. 4/4 branch: add '--show-description' optionSZEDER Gábor, Jan 1, 2018
  4. Eric SunshineJan 2, 2018
  5. SZEDER GáborJan 2, 2018
  6. Johannes SixtJan 2, 2018
  7. SZEDER GáborJan 2, 2018
  8. SZEDER GáborJan 2, 2018
  9. 3/4 t3200: restore branch after "unborn --edit-description" testSZEDER Gábor, Jan 1, 2018
  10. 1/4 branch: '--edit-description' is incompatible with other optionsSZEDER Gábor, Jan 1, 2018

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