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> (resend: I perpetuated the reply/reply all mistake) > Perhaps a small wording change is in order, to say "your branch is > up to date as of the most recent information I have from git fetch". Or perhaps: "Your local branch is unchanged since your last fetch from ..."= . That says that I have not made any changes since I last fetched the branch and suggests there could be changes in the remote branch. Bram