Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Better ref summary alignment in "git fetch"

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 06:08:40PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

v2 reformats "abc/common -> def/common" to "{abc -> def}/common"
instead and fall back to "a -> b" when they have nothing in commmon
(e.g. "HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD"). We could add an option if a user wants to
stick with "a -> b" (and we could do some alignment there as well) but
it's not part of this series.

I tried this on one of my nastiest long-branch-heavy repos. It really
does look better than the status quo. I think it's nicer than the
stair-stepping proposal in that it does get everything aligned
perfectly, and reduces wasted data that spills off the side of my
terminal.

I do somehow find the:

  { -> origin}/whatever

a little off-putting, I think because the "from" side is empty, and
therefore you get this weird mix of punctuation: "{ ->". I wonder if
there's another syntactic shorthand we could apply in that case
(especially since it will easily be the most common), but I couldn't
think of one.

It's a shame that the flag '-' in these ref update lines is not the
same in fetch and push (see 1/3). Because git-fetch does not support
--porcelain option, maybe it's not too late to change its meaning...  

I'd agree with that final "maybe". :)

-Peff