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

[Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On 4/6/09, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:30:21AM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

>> I mean something like:
>> $ git branch
>>  * foo <-> origin/foo
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Ah. Well, if you just want it for human consumption, that is much
> easier. :) That information is already shown by "git status":
>
>   $ git status
>   # On branch next
>   # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/next' by 8 commits.
>   ...

right, but it can only ne used for the current branch.

> "git branch -v" is already looking at the information, but it
> prints only the "ahead/behind" summary. E.g.,:
>
>   $ git branch -v
>     bar    1e0672d [behind 5] some commit
>   * baz    dccc1cd [ahead 1, behind 3] other commit
>     foo    787d5a8 [ahead 1] another commit
>     master a0e632e actual upstream master
>
> It would be pretty trivial to make it do something fancier. The
> (extremely rough) patch below shows the tracking branch when
> double-verbosity is given:
>
>   $ git branch -vv
>   * next 2d44318 [origin/next: ahead 9] branch -vv wip

I like it!

> So the questions are:
>
>   - is this worth it? The verbose information is already available via
>     git status, but only for the current branch.

I think it's a very usefull information.
I feel like it would be nice to have this information being part of
the basic git branch output and not associated to the -vv option.

>   - should it be the default with "-v", or require "-vv"? It take up a
>     bit of screen real estate, which is already in short supply for
>     "branch -v"

How about be just part of the default git branch output?


>   - in both the "status" and "branch" cases, we show nothing if they
>     are equivalent. I guess you would want to see
>
>       * next 2d44318 [origin/next] branch -vv wip
>
>     or
>
>       * next 2d44318 [origin/next: uptodate] branch -vv wip

Sure.

Thanks!

Ciao,
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Paolo
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