We often have a name such as 'origin' available; use it if so rather than showing the raw URL. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> --- The old output: $ git fetch -v From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git = [up to date] html -> origin/html ... Versus the new output: $ ./git fetch -v From origin = [up to date] html -> origin/html ... Alternatively, we could do something like From origin (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git) but no other command seems to do such a thing. Note that a fetch with a direct URL rather than a name will still show the URL as before. Another RFC in this is the behavior of `git ls-remote`- it also shows a URL when we may have a nice name available, so I can resubmit with that modified as well if people agree with the change. The difference is porcelain vs plumbing. -Dan builtin/fetch.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c index f9c41da..01bda5a 100644 --- a/builtin/fetch.c +++ b/builtin/fetch.c @@ -436,8 +436,12 @@ static int store_updated_refs(const char *raw_url, const char *remote_name, REFCOL_WIDTH, *what ? what : "HEAD"); if (*note) { if (verbosity >= 0 && !shown_url) { - fprintf(stderr, _("From %.*s\n"), - url_len, url); + if (remote_name) + fprintf(stderr, _("From %s\n"), + remote_name); + else + fprintf(stderr, _("From %.*s\n"), + url_len, url); shown_url = 1; } if (verbosity >= 0) -- 1.7.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html