From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: wishlist: git info Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4739FFDA.8020702@op5.se> References: <20071112222106.GE2918@steel.home> <4738D8AA.1030604@users.sourceforge.net> <7v3avat147.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <4739F9F7.20407@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Neumann X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 13 20:50:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Is1m7-00041A-BY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:50:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757800AbXKMTtv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:49:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755640AbXKMTtu (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:49:50 -0500 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:47651 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754045AbXKMTtu (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:49:50 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A051F08764; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WqqeTWiJ7QPh; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [172.27.78.26]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC071F08760; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:47 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: <4739F9F7.20407@users.sourceforge.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Neumann wrote: >> But "project description"? Give me a break. If you have cloned >> the repository (or learned the existence of repository), you >> already learned from elsewhere what the project is about. > well, not that I asked for the project description, but I see a small > benefit there. The point is not to know what the project is about. You > know, after all you checked it out in the first place. My goal is to > quickly/easily see "what is in this directory". > > Perhaps my usage pattern is obscure, but I have something like 40 > repositories checked out in different directories, and I sometimes loose > track of what actually is in a certain directory (and in what state). A > simple "ls" is not enough, as some of them look very similar on the top > level. Hence my interest for "git info". > I had that problem too, until I realized that what I really needed was to clone repos out with the same careful structure we're using on the server, and then just use \w instead of \W in my $PS1. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231