From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: wishlist: git info Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:13:59 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <20071112222106.GE2918@steel.home> <4738D8AA.1030604@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Neumann X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 13 12:14:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Irtj9-0003sS-Ec for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:14:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752322AbXKMLO1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:14:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752122AbXKMLO1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:14:27 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35783 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751883AbXKMLO0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:14:26 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2007 11:14:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO openvpn-client) [138.251.11.103] by mail.gmx.net (mp044) with SMTP; 13 Nov 2007 12:14:25 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18u2bEs5CIutSbjMuVF5fThl1/GPan7k8dJePjeZm 4l+eMvvz3YmuCA X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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