When will posh-git-sh retrieve git status automatically?

[alexya]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44815493/git-checkout-to-another-branch-cannot-show-its-correct-status

I met an issue related to git status, please see the thread in stackoverflow.com.

I want to double check with you, will posh-git-sh script update the local repository status such as git fetch when I ran git checkout master to swtich branches?

From the design of git, when running git checkout <branch_name> it will not fetch the information from remote repository. But one of my computer can get updated staus but another computer failed. I think it may be that I mis-config posh-git-sh in the computer.

But I don't know where I made mistake. What I did these days is to make my script install oh-my-zsh and posh-git-sh automaticaly. https://github.com/alexya/envconfig/blob/master/setup.sh

Any help will be much appreciated.

[lyze]

The script does not perform a fetch, since that might be a time-consuming operation. The core of the script is an exercise in parsing the output of git status.

Do you suspect a bug? We would need more detailed steps to reproduce.

[alexya]

I created a repo 'Test-Git' to have a test. Yes, git can not know if the remote repository is updated. We need to run git fetch to update the status.
But, I really have one computer which could auto-update the staus of a remote repository. Every time when I pressed enter in terminal, it can tell me the true status.

It is not a posh-git-sh issue. I think we can close this thread.