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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-fetch: mega-terse fetch output
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:52:57 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710191050090.19446@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160710190731v67626fd8wa94ba069a17f73ce@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Santi Béjar wrote:

> 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

Well, I don't like it as much.  First I don't think newbies will care 
much more even if the type of update is spelled out verbosely.  Better 
keep it short and add all the necessary information in the fetch man 
page instead.


Nicolas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19  6:22 [RFC/PATCH] git-fetch: mega-terse fetch output Jeff King
2007-10-19  6:39 ` David Symonds
2007-10-19  6:46   ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  7:39   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  7:57     ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  8:07       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19  8:11         ` Jeff King
     [not found]         ` <?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?2007101=049081127.?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?GA30168@coredump?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?.intra.peff.net>
2007-10-19  8:19           ` David Kastrup
2007-10-19  8:39             ` Jeff King
2007-10-19  8:21     ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-19 10:03     ` Santi Béjar
2007-10-19 11:38       ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-19 12:31         ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-19 14:14           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 14:31             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 14:31             ` Santi Béjar
2007-10-19 14:40               ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-19 14:40               ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-19 14:54                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 14:41               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 14:56                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 14:52               ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-10-20  5:00             ` Jeff King
2007-10-20  6:58               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 14:38         ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-19 15:03           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 21:17             ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-19 21:40               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 21:58                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-19 13:15       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-23  8:39         ` Miles Bader
2007-10-19 10:45     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-19 10:51     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-19 13:05     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 15:50     ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-19 15:53       ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-19 16:12       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 17:26         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-19 18:51           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 10:40 ` Andreas Ericsson

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