From: Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:02:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1
Message-ID: <F1A17EC9-1241-4735-9D38-AFECA61CB1D4@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiltzOHvsVkqnKLV-fy-T8KyGQ8vg6pPm4xPZpJ-@mail.gmail.com>


On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:45 AM, John Tapsell wrote:

> On 9 June 2010 06:36, Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org> wrote:
>> Add a notification in the command prompt specifying whether you're ahead of
>> (>), behind (<), diverged from (<>) or at (=) your upstream.  This is
>> especially helpful in small teams that (forget to) push to each other very
>> frequently.
> 
> I hate to get all feature-bloat on you...
> 
> But could it state the number of commits as well please? :) :)
> 

I like the idea of ahead, at, behind, and diverged

but I would want to use unicode/utf8  as my terminal supports it, would use it.

⇅	UPWARDS ARROW LEFTWARDS OF DOWNWARDS ARROW is diverged.
↑	UPWARDS ARROW master is ahead.
↓	DOWNWARDS ARROW is master is behind.

Steve