On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 5:54 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 'git branch' has an option to edit a branch's description, but lacks
> the option to show that description.
>
> Therefore, add a new '--show-description' option to do just that, as a
> more user-friendly alternative to 'git config --get
> branch.$branchname.description':
> [...]
> - errors out with a proper error message when the given branch
> doesn't exist (but exits quietly with an error code when the
> branch does exit but has no description, just like the 'git config'
s/exit/exist/
> query does).
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
> @@ -737,6 +741,35 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char
> *prefix)
> + } else if (show_description) {
> + [...]
> + if (!argc) {
> + if (filter.detached)
> + die(_("cannot show description on detached
> HEAD"));
> + branch_name = head;
> + } else if (argc == 1)
> + branch_name = argv[0];
> + else
> + die(_("cannot show description of more than one
> branch"));
Aside from paralleling the single branch accepted by
--edit-description, why this limitation? (Just curious; I don't feel
strongly one way or the other.)
