[PATCH v2 0/3] Towards a useable git-branch

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

So, while investigating alignment operators in pretty-formats, I found
out that it's way too much effort and totally not worth it (atleast
not immediately; we can add it later if we want).  What I want now is
a useable git-branch output.  And I think I can say that I've achieved
it.

I currently have hot aliased to

for-each-ref --format='%C(red)%(HEAD)%C(reset) %C(green)%(refname:short)%C(reset)%(upstream:trackshort)' --count 10 --sort='-committerdate' refs/heads

and it works beautifully for me.  Sample output:

% git hot
* hot-branch<>
  pickaxe-doc>
  publish-rev=
  publish-rev-test
  upstream-error=
  push-current-head=
  master=
  prompt=
  autostash-stash=
  rebase.autostash=

The asterisk is red, the branch names are in green, and the tracking
marker is white.

I'm very happy with the implementation too:

1. color only kicks in at the parsing layer.
2. HEAD is a new atom.
3. :track[short] is a formatp like :short.

There is no need to use a hammer and coerce everything into an atom,
or throw everything out the window and start from scratch to conform
to pretty-formats perfectly.  Let's extend the existing format to be
_useful_ sensibly.

Thanks.

Ramkumar Ramachandra (3):
  for-each-ref: introduce %C(...) for color
  for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) marker
  for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])

 builtin/for-each-ref.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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