On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 02:42:45PM +0000, Jeff Hostetler wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt > index ea029ad..9a2f209 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt > @@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. > + > In short format with --branch, '[different]' will printed rather > than detailed ahead/behind counts. > ++ > + In long (normal) format, a simple out of date message will be > + printed rather than detailed ahead/behind counts. Same asciidoc trickery here as in the first patch (and in the --short one, too, but I forgot to mention it). > + } else if (no_ahead_behind) { > + strbuf_addf(sb, _("Your branch is out of date with '%s'.\n"), > + base); > + > + /* TODO Do we need a generic hint here? */ > + I'm not sure what we'd advise here. I'd consider: git log --oneline --graph HEAD..@{upstream} to see the actual differences, but that's a bit verbose. Is there an easy way to re-enable it? I guess repeating the command with "--ahead-behind" should do so. -Peff