Another possibility is with just some minor reductions from the current output, as: $ git fetch spearce ... >From git://repo.or.cz/git/spearce * spearce/gitk: fast forward to branch 'gitk' old..new: 0d6df4d..2b5afb7 * spearce/maint: fast forward to branch 'maint' old..new: 1aa3d01..e7187e4 * spearce/master: fast forward to branch 'master' old..new: de61e42..7840ce6 * spearce/next: fast forward to branch 'next' old..new: 895be02..2fe5433 * spearce/pu: forcing update to non-fast forward branch 'pu' old...new: 89fa332...1e4c517 This way it is slightly less terse than the other proposals but not that cryptic and it normally fits in one line without padding. And I really like to see what has changed explicitly with the old..new line. Santi - 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