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From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: `Git Status`-like output for two local branches
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:58:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b18b3110909050758k597f917fn3baefa5fdb4741a0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090905081726.GA7109@coredump.intra.peff.net>

2009/9/5 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:18:54AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:57, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> >  2. Count the commits on each side that are not in the other.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >      You can also do that by parsing the output of:
>> >       git rev-list --left-right $a...$b --
>>
>> Perhaps it is useful to introduce a --left-right-count or such?
>
> I'm not opposed to that if it is something a lot of people found useful,
> but I am not sure we have established that as the case (I am curious to
> hear from Tim what his actual use case is).

It would be useful in for instance prompt status line. At $work we
have a number of people using a prompt that includes the result of
parsing git-status, but something --left-right-count would be much
nicer, and if i understand it, more efficient (although maybe im
wrong). In the prompt they use a number of different unicode arrows to
show what has happened, with a Y type thing for diverged.

cheers,
Yves


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-05 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-31 20:20 `Git Status`-like output for two local branches Tim Visher
2009-09-02  7:57 ` Jeff King
2009-09-02  8:18   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-05  8:17     ` Jeff King
2009-09-05 14:58       ` demerphq [this message]
2009-09-09 12:26         ` Jeff King

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