From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:32:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.
Message-ID: <7vlk0mne5d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080701091347.GA11817@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> i recently switched to 1.5.6.1.89.gd5446 and i'm getting this:
>
>   Switched to branch "master"
>   Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.
>
> it's a very useful detail! It's especially useful when two branches 
> diverge in a non-trivial way.
> ...
> but having a reminder at checkout time is even better (and faster as 
> well). Kudos.

Thanks for a rare positive usability feedback.  When I started reading
your message, I almost expected that I'd hear you say "I am getting this
useless cruft and it wastes extra cycles."

Somebody must have had a very bright idea that day in late February this
year.