Re: wishlist: git info

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 11:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711131111220.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <fhbn50$uqu$1@ger.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Thomas Neumann wrote:

> Perhaps also project description (if it exists?) one can specify a 
> project description? I did not even know this. But yes, this would be 
> useful, too. In general I think git info should show everything to 
> quickly understand what is currently checked out.

Is slightly troubles me that you put so much emphasis on what I would call "remote information". I understand that in svn, your working directory without the server is not very useful. But we do not have that problem.

> The name of the current branch should probably be included, too.

FWIW I think a much better idea is to have that bash prompt that was posted some months ago; there's not even a need to run a program manually then!

> I use an alias with the commands proposed by Alex Riessen for now, but a 
> more general command would be nice.

His name is "Riesen", just like in the German translation of the famous Newton statement.

Ciao, Dscho