From: Matthieu Moy Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:27:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: add advice on how to push/pull to tracking branch Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmwyi8rjt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Matthieu Moy 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) -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/