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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:44:05 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ej6dhito.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80iqvq2bw0.fsf@tiny.isode.net>

Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com> writes:

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> 
> > i recently switched to 1.5.6.1.89.gd5446 and i'm getting this:
> >
> >   Switched to branch "master"
> >   Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.
> >
> > it's a very useful detail! It's especially useful when two branches 
> > diverge in a non-trivial way.
> 
> I agree, it's a really nice little feature.  Indeed, I occasionally do
> "git checkout master" just to get the message (to see where I am).
> 
> It feels logical for "git status" to offer the same information (when
> the information is appropriate).

I agree that having this information in git-status would be useful,
especially that it would make having this reminder in buffer/editor
when editing commit message.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01  9:13 [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits Ingo Molnar
2008-07-01  9:26 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-07-01 10:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-01 11:41     ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-07-01 12:47       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-01 19:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-02  7:50       ` [PATCH 0/3] Making remote tracking statistics available to other tools Junio C Hamano
2008-07-03 16:26         ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-03 19:07           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-03 19:25             ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-02  7:51       ` [PATCH 1/3] Refactor "tracking statistics" code used by "git checkout" Junio C Hamano
2008-07-02  7:52       ` [PATCH 2/3] git-status: show the remote tracking statistics Junio C Hamano
2008-07-02  7:52       ` [PATCH 3/3] git-branch -v: " Junio C Hamano
2008-07-02  8:23         ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-02  8:33           ` Karl Hasselström
2008-07-02 14:44             ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-02  8:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-02 15:44         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-01 12:44   ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-07-01  9:32 ` [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits Junio C Hamano
2008-07-01 10:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-01 11:16     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-01 11:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-01 11:41         ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-01 23:55           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-04  8:35         ` Pedro Melo
2008-07-01 12:46     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-07-01 18:01     ` Björn Steinbrink

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