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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash completion: Support "unpushed commits" warnings in __git_ps1
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:12:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006062212.56657.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C0AE640.3040503@pileofstuff.org>

Andrew Sayers wrote:
> People working in small teams sometimes forget to push their changes, causing
> general confusion.  A gentle reminder in the command prompt should help.
[...]
> +#       there're unpushed commits, then a '!' will be shown next to

BTW, here's another idea: how about using '>' and '<' to signal being
ahead and behind upstream, resp. (and both if they diverged)?

(I think the hard question here is whether it's helpful enough to
weigh against the confusion of having it show nothing, because the
user hasn't fetched after an update on the remote...)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-06 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-06  0:05 [PATCH] bash completion: Support "unpushed commits" warnings in __git_ps1 Andrew Sayers
2010-06-06 18:14 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-06 20:49   ` Andrew Sayers
2010-06-06 21:07     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-06 22:19       ` Andrew Sayers
2010-06-07  7:42     ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-08 21:36       ` [RFC/PATCHv2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-09  8:21         ` Peter Kjellerstedt
2010-06-09  8:45         ` John Tapsell
2010-06-09 21:02           ` Steven Michalske
2010-06-09  9:17         ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-09 20:48           ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-09 21:03             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-10 11:47         ` [PATCH 0/2] " Thomas Rast
2010-06-10 11:47           ` [PATCH 1/2] rev-list: introduce --count option Thomas Rast
2010-06-10 11:47           ` [PATCH 2/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 Thomas Rast
2010-06-12  0:00             ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-06-12 10:03               ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Thomas Rast
2010-06-12  9:59                 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] rev-list: introduce --count option Thomas Rast
2010-06-12  9:59                 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 Thomas Rast
2010-06-14  3:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-14  7:44                     ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-14 12:36                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-06-12 10:11                 ` vger doesn't like UTF-8 from send-email Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 15:06                   ` [PATCH] send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 16:28                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-13 15:09                       ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-13  4:15                   ` vger doesn't like UTF-8 from send-email Michael Witten
2010-06-14 11:57                     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-06-12 20:50                 ` [PATCH] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" messages in __git_ps1 Andrew Sayers
2010-06-14  7:42                   ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-15 21:50                     ` [PATCHv4] " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-16 19:05                       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-16 19:11                         ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-17 21:31                         ` [PATCHv5 0/2] " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-18 16:10                           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-18 21:02                             ` Andrew Sayers
2010-06-17 21:32                         ` [PATCHv5 1/2] " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-17 21:32                         ` [PATCHv5 2/2] bash-completion: Fix __git_ps1 to work with "set -u" Andrew Sayers
2010-06-10 13:31           ` [PATCH 0/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 Michael J Gruber
2010-06-10 12:03         ` [RFC/PATCHv2] " Thomas Rast
2010-06-06 20:12 ` Thomas Rast [this message]

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