alt Hacker NewsIt's not useless information, any more than the tachometer or a temperature gauge instead of an "idiot light" in a car is useless information. Again, "because git is an open-source project written by nerds, it shows you all of this information. Feel free to ignore it!"
If you don't want it, use `--quiet`. I like that it's there by default since it's useful when I need it and ignorable when I don't.
Of all the things to complain about git...
How often do you really need to look at that info while doing normal work?
Because to me and to the very vast majority of git users it is totally irrelevant.
It is nice that the info is available, but the more sane default would be to hide under a verbose flag not the other way around.
Imagine typing cd folder/ and have the whole filesystem subtree be displayed in the terminal. You are free to ignore it, but it is useless and inconvenient nonetheless