Re: [PATCH] branch: add show-tracking option

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

Duy Nguyen venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2013 10:23:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> I feel, though, that we're really exploding our option and config realm.
>> For "git branch" in list mode, we are already able to stack "-v", i.e.
>> "-v" and "-vv" do different things. How about maybe adding "-vvv" and
>> arranging things so that the verbosity and the run time increases with
>> the number of v's?
>>
>> -v list with sha1 + subject of last commit
>> -vv add upstream branch name
>> -vvv add ahead/behind info (the only costly mode)
>> -vvvv same with "--cherry" (ahead/behind/same)
>>
>> Or maybe combine the middle two cases into "-vv", which means it would
>> be the same as "-vv", with only "-v" changing what it does now.
> 
> What if I want something in -vvvv except some in -vv? I think to avoid
> option explosion, maybe we can adopt --pretty=format:xxx from "git
> log" and let the user decideswhat (and how) to display. "pretty" code
> learns about alignment already, which may be useful here.
> --
> Duy

Sure, that is the big solution we've been talking about. Unify
for-each-ref formats and log formats and use that. After all, "git
branch" in list mode really is for-each-ref, and should be transparently
so; same goes for "git tag". Think "git rev-list" and "git ref-list"!

But I guess we'll be compabeaten ;)

Michael