Re: wishlist: git info

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Thomas Neumann, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 21:30:56 +0100:
> while git is pleasant to use in everyday work, there is one svn feature
> which is miss dearly, namely "svn info". svn info can give information
> about specific file objects, but I think its main feature is to use it
> without any path and thus just describe the current project.
> I use this a lot to quickly find out to which remote repository the
> current directory belongs (yes, some work projects tend to look very
> similar...) and what is the current state of the directory.
> 
> As a crude approximation, "git info" should print something like:
> cat .git/config | grep url
> git show | head -3

you're better of just running "gitk --all" at this point. It'll show
remote branches (with the names of remote repos prepended) and their
relations to the local repo.

> Probably not the most intelligent way to compute it, but you get the
> idea. git info should give a brief overview over the current working
> directory.

Like what? None of the commands you suggested even touch it.
Would

    git remote -r -v && git log --max-count=1 --pretty=format:'%h %s'

do what you think is what you need?

May I suggest you to consider just running "git fetch -v"?