Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The patch itself looks obviously correct and describes the current > behavior. But I have to wonder: the --short format will also not produce > the branch line unless you provide "-b". So why is it that the porcelain > format does not respect "-b", since anybody who asked for it would > obviously be expecting to find and parse it? > > Should this bit of documentation be dropped in favor of just making "-b" > work properly? I would say so. Also "branch line" was an undefined term and I had to read the whole thing to find out what the updated documentation was talking about; we may want to consistently say "branch and tracking info" as the earlier part of the document says. -- 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