From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:41:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] branch: improve verbose option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1377903583-3550-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> From: "Felipe Contreras" Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 11:59 PM > Hi, > > This has been discussed before: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/224489 > > but in the spirit of the perfect being the enemy of the good, nothing > got done. > > This series makes 'git branch -v' much faster, and gives us the most > important > information; the configured upstream tracking branch. Yes, It's someting I often want reminding of (which origin server, which master?, ..etc.) always appear to start here. > Showing ahead/behind is > not as important, I still find this useful - if it's up to date I don't need reminding of which remote / upstream tracking branch it's configured against ;-) These two bits of information, while related are separate. If anything I think I'd prefer both, but then again optimisations are still good. Bikeshedding ends. Philip > specially considering that currently 'git branch -v' doesn't > show the branch we are comparing the ahead/behind to. > > Strictly speaking it's a regression, but nobody would complain, and if > somebody > does, it should be easy to revert if needed. > > Felipe Contreras (2): > branch: trivial cleanup > branch: reorganize verbose options > > builtin/branch.c | 33 +++++++++++++++------------------ > t/t6040-tracking-info.sh | 8 ++++---- > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) > > --