-#we want my branch here, don't we? not like parent or anything?
- check_branch_state "$this_branch"
- state=$?
- test_or_continue "branch state check"
- echo the branch state is $state
-#need to instead do something here if fails.
-# above is worse than useless code; in the situations i'm seeing fail, it reports no changes. *&@#*&@#
+#appears to be useless; reports no changes when we need to know about remote changes that do exist:
+# check_branch_state "$this_branch"
+# state=$?
+# test_or_continue "branch state check"
+# echo the branch state is $state