flag remote branches that are ahead of remote master

[rmbar]

It would be nice if I could set a flag to report when a remote branch is ahead of remote master. This tells me when my release branches have a bugfix that I have forgotten to merge into my main development branch.

[fboender]

How would you go about this manually? As far as I know there's no way to know if a remote branch was branched off the master (or any other) branch. Would we have to add some way to manually configure which branches should be checked against which branches?

[rmbar]

I normally determine this on one of the github panels, but I found a SO post about how I can be done locally.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/27940027

[voxpelli]

One way could be to only check a subset of branches, like all those starting with “feature/*” as in git-flow.

Of course not hard coded, but enabling such a glob-like pattern as an input to such an argument.

Would be good to be able to configure target branch as well. In my case I often want to check if ‘master’ has been pushed to ‘release’