Re: [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>]

2008/7/1 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:
> * Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> > ...
>> > but having a reminder at checkout time is even better (and faster as
>> > well). Kudos.
[snippy]
> There's a small detail i was thinking about: is there a way to get this
> extra output without actually switching branches? Right now i do this:
>
>  earth4:~/tip> git-checkout tip; git-checkout master
>  Checking out files: 100% (2437/2437), done.
>  Switched to branch "tip"
>  Switched to branch "master"
>  Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.
>
> (Which is an admitted lame solution but the best i could figure.)

{14:44:16|~code/git}% git checkout master
Checking out files: 100% (180/180), done.
Switched to branch "master"
{14:44:24|~code/git}% git shard HEAD\~5
HEAD is now at 8e69d78 Merge branch 'maint'
{14:44:28|~code/git}% git checkout HEAD
Your branch is behind the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 6 commits,
and can be fast-forwarded.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson