Fwd: Usability issue: "Your branch is up to date"

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From: Bram van Oosterhout <redacted>
Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Usability issue: "Your branch is up to date"
To: Chris Torek <redacted>


On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM Chris Torek [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM Bram van Oosterhout
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Ahhhh, this thread explains my confusion when, even though git locally
tells me my branch is "up to date", a fetch demonstrates the branch is
not up to date.

Which begs the question: Why does git say: "Your branch is up to date
..." if at best it can say: "Your
branch MIGHT BE up to date with ..."?

(resend: I perpetuated the reply/reply all mistake)

Perhaps a small wording change is in order, to say "your branch is
up to date as of the most recent information I have from git fetch".

Or perhaps: "Your local branch is unchanged since your last fetch from ...".
That says that I have not made any changes since I last fetched the
branch and suggests there could be changes in the remote branch.

Bram