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

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 7, 2009, 04:41 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:00:20AM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
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> > 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.

I'm not sure we should disrupt the simplicity of the current "git branch" output. I would be curious to hear what others think.

-Peff
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