#appears to be useless; reports no changes when we need to know about remote changes that do exist:
#hmmm: trying it out again now that things are better elsewhere. let's see what it says.
state=$(check_branch_state "$this_branch")
#appears to be useless; reports no changes when we need to know about remote changes that do exist:
#hmmm: trying it out again now that things are better elsewhere. let's see what it says.
state=$(check_branch_state "$this_branch")