Re: New feature discussion: git rebase --status

[John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:35:29PM +0200, Mathieu Liénard--Mayor wrote:
> (Got the idea from:
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas#git_rebase_--status)
> 
> When in the middle of a rebase, users can be easily confused about
> what to do, or where they are in the rebase process.
> 
> All the information is available in .git/rebase-merge/, but I believe
> it would be helpful to have a command (for example 'git rebase
> --status') which would explicitely indicate the state of the process.
> 
> For instance, the output could look like:
> 
> $ git rebase --status
> Rebasing my_last_commit onto base_commit
> Already applied 2 patches:
> 	b170635... my_commit_message
> 	b170635... my_commit_message
> Currently applying b170635... my_commit_message
> 2 patches left to apply:
> 	b170635... my_commit_message
> 	b170635... my_commit_message

The one piece of information that I often want is the SHA1 of the commit
that is currently being applied.  Currently I have to look through my
scrollback for the "stopping" message or poke around in .git/.

Having that in the output of "git status" would be really nice, but the
output format you've posted is a big improvement over what we have at
the moment for this case.

Actually, the same applies for cherry-pick and revert when they have
been given a range - showing the commit that is currently being applied
in "git status" would be nice there as well.