Re: [PATCH 0/2] branch: improve verbose option

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 31, 2013, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s00qUjqR6Daiy_3_hONuSBkxY99xaxCdbKyBM-t84Q0=w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CD323DA08A0540A89D9BFB28F541AFB4@PhilipOakley>

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

> From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

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>>        Showing ahead/behind is
>> not as important,
>
>
> I still find this useful - if it's up to date I don't need reminding of
> which remote / upstream tracking branch it's configured against ;-)

Whether or not it's up to date depends on which is the upstream tracking branch. What if you see "ahead 1", and you think it's not up to date, but it turns out it's tracking the wrong branch?

> These two bits of information, while related are separate. If anything I
> think I'd prefer both, but then again optimisations are still good.

So you can keep using 'git branch -vv'.

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Felipe Contreras