Re: [PATCH 1/2] fetch: better alignment in ref summary

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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That is, I wonder if the above can become something like:
>
>> From github.com:pclouds/git
>>  * [new branch]      { -> pclouds/}2nd-index
>>  * [new branch]      { -> pclouds/}3nd-index
>>  * [new branch]      { -> pclouds/}file-watcher
>>  ...

for context of the following quote...

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I do agree with Junio that we could probably improve the output quite a
> bit by not showing each refname twice in the common case. I don't quite
> find the "{ -> origin/}whatever" particularly pretty, but something like
> that which keeps the variable bits at the end would make this problem
> just go away.

I tried it out. It's a bit hard to read at the "/}" boundary. Color
highlight might help. But it occurs to me, could we extend refspec a
bit to allow "foo/bar:base/..." be be equivalent of
"foo/bar:base/foo/bar". Then fetch output could become

>>  * [new branch]      2nd-index:pclouds/...
>>  * [new branch]      3nd-index:pclouds/...
>>  * [new branch]      file-watcher:pclouds/...

It might be a tiny bit better, and a forced update could be displayed
with a prefix '+'. Hmm?
-- 
Duy
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