On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It makes sense to make the various information available, but it does not > mean it makes sense to add it by default for everybody at all. Given that > against all common sense, many newbie web-tips and third-party documents > suggest "git branch | sed -ne 's/^\* //p'" as a way to find the current > branch in scripts, I am sure such a change will cause trouble to many > while only helping a few. > You certainly have a point. > I wouldn't mind a new option --verbose-format=... that takes various > formatting letters similar to how --pretty=format:... does, though. > I will explore this option and see if it is worth the trouble. Probably I can accomplish this locally with an alias. ~Santhosh. -- 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