Re: [RFC/PATCH] show tracking branches with their associated branch names

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

It makes sense to make the various information available, but it does not
mean it makes sense to add it by default for everybody at all. Given that
against all common sense, many newbie web-tips and third-party documents
suggest "git branch | sed -ne 's/^\* //p'" as a way to find the current
branch in scripts, I am sure such a change will cause trouble to many
while only helping a few.

You certainly have a point.

I wouldn't mind a new option --verbose-format=... that takes various
formatting letters similar to how --pretty=format:... does, though.

I will explore this option and see if it is worth the trouble.
Probably I can accomplish this locally with an alias.

~Santhosh.