Re: [RFC] git subcommand to check if branch is up-to-date with upstream

> W dniu 2016-07-25 o 18:58, Junio C Hamano pisze:
>> Sidhant Sharma <tigerkid001@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a command to check if a
>>> push or pull is required. Perhaps it can also suggest if changes are
>>> fast-forward or the branches (local and remote) have diverged.
>> Doesn't "branch -v" give that information these days?  You'd need to
>> "fetch" first to get the up-to-date worldview before running it, of
>> course.
> You need "branch -v -v". For current branch, you can simply run "git checkout".
> All this is the information for end user, not scripts.
>
> $ git branch -v -v
> * gitweb-docs   4ebf58d [origin/master: ahead 1] gitweb(1): Document query parameters
>   master        08bb350 [origin/master] Sixth batch of topics for 2.10
>
> $ git checkout
> Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
>   (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
>