Julia Evanspoll: when you see this message in `git status`:
”Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main’.”
do you know that your branch may not actually be up to date with the `main` branch on the remote?
yes
mostly yes
no
what?
Poll ended at .
(i've been wondering if there's a world where it's possible to convince the folks who make git to change that message to add “... as of 5 minutes/3 days/6 years ago”, but I think it might be hard to implement)
emily dogmom@b0rk it COULD be? i think we can get it easily from mtime of .git/refs/remotes/<tracking remote>/<tracking branch>
@b0rk you can totally propose it to git at vger dot kernel dot org if you want, or i think you're already in the git discord, we'd be happy to advise through implementing a patch ;) ;)
@b0rk but i just tried out examining the mtime on .git/refs/origin/master before and after a fetch on my almost-always-stale laptop clone and it totally looked right
malte@nasamuffin @b0rk i voted "no" because i always forget, so i would be really stoked about this 🥺