Re: wishlist: git info

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Thomas Neumann wrote:

> Perhaps also project description (if it exists?) one can specify a 
> project description? I did not even know this. But yes, this would be 
> useful, too. In general I think git info should show everything to 
> quickly understand what is currently checked out.

Is slightly troubles me that you put so much emphasis on what I would call 
"remote information".  I understand that in svn, your working directory 
without the server is not very useful.  But we do not have that problem.

> The name of the current branch should probably be included, too.

FWIW I think a much better idea is to have that bash prompt that was 
posted some months ago; there's not even a need to run a program manually 
then!

> I use an alias with the commands proposed by Alex Riessen for now, but a 
> more general command would be nice.

His name is "Riesen", just like in the German translation of the famous 
Newton statement.

Ciao,
Dscho