Thomas Neumann, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 21:30:56 +0100: > while git is pleasant to use in everyday work, there is one svn feature > which is miss dearly, namely "svn info". svn info can give information > about specific file objects, but I think its main feature is to use it > without any path and thus just describe the current project. > I use this a lot to quickly find out to which remote repository the > current directory belongs (yes, some work projects tend to look very > similar...) and what is the current state of the directory. > > As a crude approximation, "git info" should print something like: > cat .git/config | grep url > git show | head -3 you're better of just running "gitk --all" at this point. It'll show remote branches (with the names of remote repos prepended) and their relations to the local repo. > Probably not the most intelligent way to compute it, but you get the > idea. git info should give a brief overview over the current working > directory. Like what? None of the commands you suggested even touch it. Would git remote -r -v && git log --max-count=1 --pretty=format:'%h %s' do what you think is what you need? May I suggest you to consider just running "git fetch -v"? - 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