From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 13:41:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: learn --discard subcommand Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Martin von Zweigbergk writes: > Maybe the recent patch [1] about adding information to git status > about any ongoing operation would help. I'm not sure, but I think I > would personally be a bit hesitant to cancel the current sequence > operation without first checking what it was. OTOH, if I don't even > remember starting a rebase operation, maybe knowing whether it was a > rebase or an am operation might not help much. But if the message from > git status would actually say something like "rebase in progress: > [2/3] War on nbsp: a bit of retreat", then that might help more in > making a decision to cancel or not. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172919 Such information could be not enough. I understand that "git status" output space is limited, but it would be nice if e.g. "git status -v" described current state in more detail: rebase in progress: [2/3] War on nbsp: a bit of retreat" rebasing xx/foo --onto master~5 It would describe which branch were we rebasing, and on what commit (preferring for name-rev description to start from branch we were rebasing onto, if possible). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git