Git status display

Git status shows the following information:

• number of ahead / behind commits for current branch
• current branch
• tags on HEAD

Information is displayed in these locations:

• Project View - ahead / behind, branch name, tags on HEAD

  

• status bar - ahead / behind

  

Numbers for ahead and behind are based on number of commits not present in each of the branches. This information is obtained from output of git rev-list <current-ref>...<parent-ref> --left-right command.

Information presentation depends on the selected parent branch mode:

1. if parent-ref is a remote tracking branch of a current branch
   • simple branch name is displayed
   • ahead shows number of not yet pushed commits
   • behind shows number of remote commits not present in local branch
2. if parent-ref is a remote branch not tracking current branch (possible with Auto or selected parent modes)
   • extended branch name is displayed
     • <current branch> -> <parent branch> when both branches have the same remote
     • <current branch> -> <parent remote>/<parent branch> when both branches have different remotes
   • ahead shows number of commits from a current branch not present in remote parent branch
   • behind shows number of commits on a remote parent not present in the current branch

Parent branch mode

There are following modes available:

1. Auto - if Task Management plugin is enabled then get tracked branch of tasks parent branch, use tracked branch of current branch otherwise
2. Tracked remote - tracked branch of current branch
3. Selected parent - tracked branch of selected local branch. Branch selection goes through steps:
   1. if branch name contains / then match against names of remote branches prefixed with remote
   2. else find local branch with given name and use it’s remote branch as parent