Re: [RFC/PATCH 07/11] branch: move 'current' check down to the presentation layer

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>]

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> We check if given ref is the current branch in print_ref_list().  Move
>>> this check to print_ref_item() where it is checked right before
>>> printing.
>>
>> This means that the '*' and the different color are coded in C, hence
>> it's not possible to mimick this using "git for-each-ref --format ...".
>>
>> I do not consider this as blocking, but I think the ultimate goal should
>> be to allow this, so that all the goodies of "git branch" can be made
>> available to other ref-listing commands.
>>
>
> Not sure what you mean here.

What you already know, but probably badly explained ;-).

Eventually, the output of "git branch" should correspond to a format
string (so git branch would be almost an alias for "git for-each-ref
refs/heads/ --format '...'"). Internally, this would mean using
show_ref_array_item instead of print_ref_item. This is what you managed
to do for "git tag".

You already identified one difficulty with sha1 alignment in "git branch
-v". I'm pointing out another which is that displaying the "*" in front
of the current branch is currently not possible with a format string.
You would need an atom like %(displayAStarIfTheBranchIsTheCurrentOne)
(for which you'd need to find a short-and-sweet name ;-) ).

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Matthieu Moy
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