Re: Request re git status

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On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Personally, I think that the fact that Git forces the user to think
>> about it in terms of "oh I have to fetch" instead of that happening
>> automatically, it helps teach the model to the user. If it happened in
>> the background then the user might not be confronted with the
>> distributed nature of the tool.
>
> I agree. But I think there is some room for improvement. Do we know
> when the last fetch of the relevant upstream is? If we do, and if it's
> been "a while" (configurable), then we should make a note suggesting
> fetching again in git-status.
>
> This is not exactly my own idea. Gentoo's portage (i.e. friends with
> apt-get, yum... if you're not familiar) also has this explicit "fetch"
> operation, which is called sync. If you haven't sync'd in a while and
> try to install new package, you get a friendly message (that helps me
> a couple times).
> --
> Duy

That seems reasonable.

Thanks,
Jake



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