From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits. Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:32:14 -0700 Message-ID: <7vlk0mne5d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080701091347.GA11817@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 01 11:33:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDcEp-00072S-5M for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:33:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755207AbYGAJc3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:32:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754887AbYGAJc3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:32:29 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:43999 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752522AbYGAJc2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:32:28 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586EF1DE74; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:32:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A07951DE73; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:32:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080701091347.GA11817@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:13:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9E859C00-4750-11DD-A593-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ingo Molnar 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. Thanks for a rare positive usability feedback. When I started reading your message, I almost expected that I'd hear you say "I am getting this useless cruft and it wastes extra cycles." Somebody must have had a very bright idea that day in late February this year.