Re: [PATCH] status: add advice on how to push/pull to tracking branch

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Nov 16, 2012, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy5i1c2zc.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vmwyi8rjt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> I don't understand what you mean by "non-current". If you mean a local
>> branch not pointed to by HEAD, then I don't understand the remark, as
>> the message is shown by "git status" (looking more closely, it is also
>> shown by "git checkout", but after switching branch so also showing a
>> message about the current branch) and precisely talks about the current
>> branch.
>
> Ah, Ok, I somehow thought that "branch -v" would also use this
> information, and/or during my absense this function from remote.c
> got linked into "git remote show" ;-)

OK.

> So it is not an issue right now, but we will have to worry about the
> messaging when we start using this to describe a branch that is not
> currently checked out.

(Anyway, we'd have to reword it a bit: saying "Your branch ..." would be wrong in this case)

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Matthieu Moy
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