Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-08-07 Thread Junio C Hamano
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi writes: > Looking back, I probably should have started with that. `git > status` gives the status of the _relative_ current state of the > local repository without printing any information that can be used > as an _absolute_ reference to "frame" the results of the `git > status`

Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-08-07 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > HEAD is, unless you are about to create a root commit, always a > commit and not other kind of commit-ish, so there is no need to say > "or commit-ish" here. I apologize for my errant terminology, I thought commitish was what the abbrevia

Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-06-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi writes: > I hope it is not considered too forward of me for my first post to this list > to be a suggestion on a change to git’s behavior (though not in any > functional manner); but a persistent frustration for me and everyone I’ve > worked with (so, yes, 100% based off of anecd

Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-06-15 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Samuel Lijin wrote: > > Can you elaborate on why you consider this useful specifically? Personally, primary usages of the current commit-ish info are to file bug reports that include the specific git revision of any given branch that a bug was observed in/on and t

Re: [suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-06-15 Thread Samuel Lijin
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote: > Hello all, > > I hope it is not considered too forward of me for my first post to this list > to be a suggestion on a change to git’s behavior (though not in any > functional manner); but a persistent frustration for me and everyone I’ve >

[suggestion] Include commit-ish in git status output

2017-06-15 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
Hello all, I hope it is not considered too forward of me for my first post to this list to be a suggestion on a change to git’s behavior (though not in any functional manner); but a persistent frustration for me and everyone I’ve worked with (so, yes, 100% based off of anecdata) has been that the