On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 04:49:31PM -0500, Jeff Hostetler wrote: > I don't want to jump into the graph algorithm at this time, > but was wondering about adding a --no-ahead-behind flag (or > something similar or a config setting) that would disable > the a/b computation during status. > > For status V2 output, we could omit the "# branch.ab x y" > line. For normal status output, change the prose a/b > message to say something like "are [not] up to date".
Is it actually "status --porcelain=v2" that you care about here? Or is it normal "git status"? Do you care about seeing the branch at all? I.e., would "--no-branch" be a viable option (though I notice it seems to be a silent noop with the long-form, which should probably be fixed). If you really do want to see all branch details but just skip the ahead/behind, then yeah, I'd agree that adding an option to do so makes sense. Is "status" the only command that needs it? I think we do it unconditionally with "git checkout", too. > [*] Sadly, the local repo was only about 20 days out of > date (including the Thanksgiving holidays).... Taking 20 seconds to traverse 20 days worth of history sounds pretty awful. How many commits is it? -Peff
