Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-fetch: mega-terse fetch output

["Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>]

On 10/19/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
> > Theodore Tso schrieb:
> > > ==> git://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> > >  * branch gitk -> spearce/gitk              (new)
> > >  * branch maint -> spearce/maint    1aa3d01..e7187e4
> > >  * branch master -> spearce/master  de61e42..7840ce6
> > >  * branch next -> spearce/next              895be02..2fe5433
> > >  + branch pu -> spearce/pu          89fa332...1e4c517
> > >  * branch todo -> spearce/todo              (new)
> >
> > > As far as the padding, it would be a pain to figure out how to make
> > > the right hand column be padded so that it starts 3 spaces after the
> > > longest "  * branch foo -> bar" line, but that would look the best.
> >
> > But this way it wouldn't be difficult at all:
> >
> > ==> git://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> >  * (new)              gitk -> spearce/gitk
> >  * 1aa3d01..e7187e4   maint -> spearce/maint
> >  * de61e42..7840ce6   master -> spearce/master
> >  * 895be02..2fe5433   next -> spearce/next
> >  + 89fa332...1e4c517  pu -> spearce/pu
> >  * (new)              todo -> spearce/todo
>
> Actually I think this is the best format so far: one line per branch, no
> terminal width issue (long branch names are simply wrapped), the
> old..new info is there also with the single character marker to quickly
> notice the type of update.

I like it too. I would like to add some more descripton, because I
think for newbies the .. and ... can be overlooked. Something like:

$ git fetch spearce
...
URL: git://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
 * (new)              spearce/gitk: new branch 'gitk'
 * 1aa3d01..e7187e4   spearce/maint: fast forward to branch 'maint'
 * de61e42..7840ce6   spearce/master: fast forward to branch 'master'
 * 895be02..2fe5433   spearce/next: fast forward to branch 'next'
 + 89fa332...1e4c517  spearce/pu: forcing update to non-fast forward branch 'pu'
 * (new)              spearce/todo: new branch spearce/todo

I would also put 'URL:' instead '==>'.

Santi