On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:
"git status" usually says "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'" (or "ahead"), but occasionally - even though origin is configured properly - this line doesn't appear. Is there a way to convince it to always show this line?
Unfortunately, "git status" doesn't seem to ever notice if you're "behind" origin, thus the need for "git remote show origin". Any fix for that?
`git status` only looks at what's on your local file system. You need to first do a `git fetch` to update your local information (doesn't change your code, just git's information), then `git status` will reflect what's actually happening. Without some command that fetches things from the remote, `git status` will always say you're up-to-date (or ahead if you've committed things).