From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:44:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [question] how can i verify whether a local branch is tracking a remote branch?
Message-ID: <20090405144413.GC2076@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30904050332w394cccbaq5b82d2a53ed357a3@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:32:29PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

> is there a way to verify, using the UI, whether a local branch is
> tracking a remote branch?

Do you mean "whether it is tracking any branch", or "whether the branch
is is tracking is remote"?

If the former, then I think if one of branch.$branch.{merge,rebase}
is set, it is tracking something. The tracked thing is remote unless
branch.$branch.remote is ".".

-Peff