Re: [question] how can i verify whether a local branch is tracking a remote branch?

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I don't think it would be unreasonable to expose this functionality via
> "for-each-ref". Something like this (which would need cleanup,
> documentation, and perhaps a :short variant):

I think that is a sane approach, but isn't "tracking" a misnomer?  I think
what you are describing is what is called "the upstream branch" by the
description of Documentation/config.txt::branch.<name>.merge, and not what
people call "tracking branch" (see Documentation/glossary-content.txt).

In a repository with a handcrafted fetch refspec, being able to show
"tracking" information would also be interesting (e.g. a clone of git.git
made with pre-1.5.0 git would say "origin's master" for refs/heads/origin
and "origin's next" for refs/heads/next), but the separate-remote layout
is the default these days, so it wouldn't be so interesting anymore.  In
other words, I am not suggesting you to add "tracking" information.

I also wonder if you want to say "this remote" and "that branch"
separately.  As far as I can tell you are not giving the former but only
the latter information?