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

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> What about this on top of Jeff's patch?
> 
> $ git fetch jc
> ...
> ==> git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
>  * tag junio-gpg-pub ......................... (new)
>  * tag v1.5.0 .......................... (tag moved)
> 
> $ git fetch me
> ...
> ==> git://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
>  * branch gitk -> spearce/gitk ............... (new)
>  * branch maint -> spearce/maint
>  * branch master -> spearce/master
>  * branch next -> spearce/next
>  * branch pu -> spearce/pu ......... (forced update)
>  * branch todo -> spearce/todo ............... (new)
> 
> The width of the terminal is computed to produce the ... padding.
> I used a very narrow terminal to produce the above so it doesn't
> linewrap badly in email.  If we cannot get the terminal width then
> we just don't produce the padding.

I like it.

I would change the '*' to a '+' for a forced update (for similarity with 
the + notation in refspecs), and a '!' instead of a '-' for refused 
update which might be more indicative of a refusal.


Nicolas