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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] status: display "doing what" information in git status
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 16:49:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr58c4sip.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110505233925.GE636@madism.org> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Fri, 6 May 2011 01:39:25 +0200")

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>> As the "You are in middle of" information is useful mostly when you are on
>> detached head, I would have expected that the call would be inside the
>> if/elif chain near the top of wt_status_print() where we say "On branch"
>> vs "Not currently on...", to replace that information that comes from that
>> on_what variable.
>
> It's also useful when you're in the middle of a rebase or during a merge
> conflict who aren't on a detached head.

What I would expect in such a case would be like:

	# On branch master (resolving merge with ph/status)

instead of wasting an extra line like:

	# Resolving a merge conflict
        # On branch master

That is what I meant "to replace".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-05 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-05 21:48 [PATCH 1/1] status: display "doing what" information in git status Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-05 23:06 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-05 23:26   ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-06  7:48     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-06  8:04       ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-05 23:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-05 23:39   ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-05 23:47     ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-05 23:49     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-05-05 23:51       ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-06  7:38       ` [PATCH v2] " Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-06 10:13         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-05-06 17:40           ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-06 17:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-06 17:36           ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-06 18:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-06 18:40         ` Matthieu Moy
2011-05-06 18:44           ` Pierre Habouzit
2011-05-06 19:15             ` Matthieu Moy

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