Re: [PATCH 1/1] status: display "doing what" information in git status

Pierre Habouzit venit, vidit, dixit 06.05.2011 01:26:

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:06:45AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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Heya,

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 23:48, Pierre Habouzit [off-list ref] wrote:

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This provides the same information as the git bash prompt about the
current operation that is going on: rebase, merge, am, cherry-pick or
bisect.

Can you show how this will look like?

Sure, it adds a line on the top with the same color as "not on any
branch" iff there is an ongoing operation.

Of course in this setup it makes no sense since my shell shows it
already, but I'm frustrated when I use git on a remote machine where I
don't have zsh installed or configured, and at work many people would
like to know where they left stuff before they grabbed coffee and talked
for 1h instead of taking 5 minutes ;)

I think this is useful and nice in the compactified version suggested by
Junio. Be prepared for someone requesting it with "status -s -b" :)

What became of the colouring of the git-prompt, btw? I see you're using
some, and I remember a stalled effort to have this in our shipped
completion. Do have something shareable in that respect?

Michael