From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:01:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.
Message-ID: <20080701180109.GA14026@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20080701100725.GE31309@elte.hu>

On 2008.07.01 12:07:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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.)

Just "git checkout" works for me:
git (master) $ git checkout
Your branch is behind the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 6 commits,
and can be fast-forwarded.

Björn