Re: Status of all files

> >Agreed. But there's no way to tell that this is the case without
> >doing a pull operation or otherwise querying origin, and I'm
> >not going to do that.
> 
> You can query the origin _as it was on the last fetch_.
> 
> If you are on branch X, the logic is as follows:
> 
> - Let R be the value of configuration key branch.X.remote,
> - let M be the value of configuration key branch.X.merge,
> - for all values S of configuration key remote.R.fetch,
>   - strip an initial +
>   - if S is M:N, return N
>   - if S is P/*:Q/* where P is a prefix of M, take M, replace this
>     prefix with Q and return the result
> 
> In the most common case you will have:
> 
> - X = master
> - R = origin
> - M = refs/heads/master
> - one key S = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> 
> so the prefix "refs/heads/" is replaced with "refs/remotes/origin/"
> and the result is refs/remotes/origin/master.