From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: Verbose output of git commands Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:06:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20090705105856.GC5689@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Trstenjak X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 05 16:09:59 2009 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 1MNSPm-0003Og-W7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:09:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753236AbZGEOJr (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:09:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751641AbZGEOJq (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:09:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:49016 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750773AbZGEOJp (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:09:45 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n65E8wdg021991 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:08:58 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1MNSMT-0000ld-N6; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:06:33 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MNSMT-0007yV-Lj; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:06:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090705105856.GC5689@laptop> (Daniel Trstenjak's message of "Sun\, 5 Jul 2009 12\:58\:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:08:58 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: n65E8wdg021991 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1247407738.98285@HZ1lnSYgja07J8/3dH18tw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniel Trstenjak writes: > E.g: > git status > > file: needs merge > # Not currently on any branch. > # Changed but not updated: > # (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) > # (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory) > # > # unmerged: file > # > # Untracked files: > # (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) > # > # init > > > The core information is just: > > unmerged : file > untracked: init The # Not currently on any branch. also contains some relevant information. > It would be nice to be able to configure an expert mode, in which only > the core information of the git commands is printed out. Agreed, but even without that, I find 'ui.color = true' to solve most of the issue: the relevant text is shown colored, and the color tells me whether the change is staged or not. So, I can still concentrate on the important. Other than that, "git diff --name-status" can help, too. -- Matthieu