Re: `Git Status`-like output for two local branches

2009/9/5 Jeff King [off-list ref]:

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:18:54AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:57, Jeff King[off-list ref] wrote:

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 2. Count the commits on each side that are not in the other.

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     You can also do that by parsing the output of:
      git rev-list --left-right $a...$b --

Perhaps it is useful to introduce a --left-right-count or such?

I'm not opposed to that if it is something a lot of people found useful,
but I am not sure we have established that as the case (I am curious to
hear from Tim what his actual use case is).

It would be useful in for instance prompt status line. At $work we
have a number of people using a prompt that includes the result of
parsing git-status, but something --left-right-count would be much
nicer, and if i understand it, more efficient (although maybe im
wrong). In the prompt they use a number of different unicode arrows to
show what has happened, with a Y type thing for diverged.

cheers,
Yves


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