From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: add advice on how to push/pull to tracking branch
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:27:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqy5i1c2zc.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmwyi8rjt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:49:58 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 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)
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 10:45 [PATCH] status: add advice on how to push/pull to tracking branch Matthieu Moy
2012-11-15 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-15 19:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-11-15 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-16 9:27 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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