git subcommand to check if branch is up-to-date with upstream

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a command to check if a push or pull is required. Perhaps it can also suggest if changes are fast-forward or the branches (local and remote) have diverged.

Quoted 3 lines · Sidhant Sharma

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a command to check if a push or pull is required. Perhaps it can also suggest if changes are fast-forward or the branches (local and remote) have diverged.

Doesn't "branch -v" give that information these days? You'd need to "fetch" first to get the up-to-date worldview before running it, of course.

W dniu 2016-07-25 o 18:58, Junio C Hamano pisze:

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Quoted 3 lines · Sidhant Sharma

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a command to check if a push or pull is required. Perhaps it can also suggest if changes are fast-forward or the branches (local and remote) have diverged.

Doesn't "branch -v" give that information these days? You'd need to "fetch" first to get the up-to-date worldview before running it, of course.

You need "branch -v -v". For current branch, you can simply run "git checkout". All this is the information for end user, not scripts.

$ git branch -v -v
* gitweb-docs   4ebf58d [origin/master: ahead 1] gitweb(1): Document query parameters
  master        08bb350 [origin/master] Sixth batch of topics for 2.10

$ git checkout
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)