feature request: push remote branch name

[olets]

It'd be nice to have a VCS_STATUS_PUSH_REMOTE_BRANCH.

Guessing that between VCS_STATUS_PUSH_REMOTE_NAME, VCS_STATUS_REMOTE_NAME, and VCS_STATUS_REMOTE_BRANCH I could probably figure the patch… if I knew how to work in C++ 😄 But I don't so here I am.

[romkatv]

I wonder why I didn't add that in the first place.

Do you actually have a use case for it? Do you use different names for the local and the @{push} branch? Can you describe your workflow?

[olets]

I don't have a real life workflow use case — I rarely work with multiple remotes, and when I do there's rarely a reason to change the branch names. Guess I can imagine doing it as a handy way to keep track of a branch's @{u} and @{push} if your prompt didn't surface that information. edit: thinking about it some more, I think I've done it a few times for that reason. But very rarely

I noticed because I'm working on a gitstatus prompt which depending on context can show REMOTE and/or PUSH_REMOTE information. For now I'm restricting it to "can show @{u}'s remote and branch name, and @{push}'s remote but not branch name." The @{u} branch name shows if different from the local; I'd like to show the @{push} branch name if different from the local. Will anyone ever make use of it? Dunno…

[romkatv]

Thanks for the details. Since there is no use case, I'm not included to add this field.

[romkatv]

Closing because I don't intend to do anything here.

[olets]

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