Re: [PATCH 1/1] status: display "doing what" information in git status

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Pierre Habouzit venit, vidit, dixit 06.05.2011 01:26:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:06:45AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 23:48, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
>>> This provides the same information as the git bash prompt about the
>>> current operation that is going on: rebase, merge, am, cherry-pick or
>>> bisect.
>>
>> Can you show how this will look like?
> 
> Sure, it adds a line on the top with the same color as "not on any
> branch" iff there is an ongoing operation.
> 
> Of course in this setup it makes no sense since my shell shows it
> already, but I'm frustrated when I use git on a remote machine where I
> don't have zsh installed or configured, and at work many people would
> like to know where they left stuff before they grabbed coffee and talked
> for 1h instead of taking 5 minutes ;)

I think this is useful and nice in the compactified version suggested by
Junio. Be prepared for someone requesting it with "status -s -b" :)

What became of the colouring of the git-prompt, btw? I see you're using
some, and I remember a stalled effort to have this in our shipped
completion. Do have something shareable in that respect?

Michael