Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] branch: introduce --show-current display option

From: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
To: "Rafael Ascensão" <rafa.almas@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] branch: introduce --show-current display option
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:46:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b6f9f63-8512-4fb3-7506-5b149370724f@umanovskis.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181011203518.GA2385@rigel>

On 10/11/18 10:35 PM, Rafael Ascensão wrote:
> The output of the proposed command is also a bit inconsistent with the
> usual output given by git branch, specifically the space alignment on
> the left, color and * marker.

The proposed command therefore takes a new switch. It's definitely not
perfect, but doesn't give the existing --list new and different behavior.

> At this stage it's closer to what I would expect from
> $git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD;

The proposal is largely to have similar output to that command, yes. I
expect that "show current branch" is something that's available in the
branch command, even completely disregarding questions of whether it's
API stable, etc.