When the git state starts, the message "your branch is updated with" origin / branch "only appears a few times

Question

I have a repository with several branches. All branches are updated using an equivalent remote branch.

For example, see the output from git state and git log for the following two branches:

Branch mantis_0074

mchaleg@ELT-L-0018 ~/Documents/BitBucket/electroroute_repositories/gudrun (mantis_0074) $ git status On branch mantis_0074 nothing to commit, working directory clean mchaleg@ELT-L-0018 ~/Documents/BitBucket/electroroute_repositories/gudrun (mantis_0074) $ git log --oneline --decorate a67b6f7 (HEAD, origin/mantis_0074, mantis_0074) M-0074: Update expected results from sample bids. afda69c M-0074: Rename long and short term intra-day BritNed auction files to use the correct name format so that they will be processed correctly (ie not handled as bcc41 M-0074: Add unprocessed files which can be used for testing amp_file_transfer.ps1 script. 

Branch mantis_0151

 mchaleg@ELT-L-0018 ~/Documents/BitBucket/electroroute_repositories/gudrun (mantis_0151) $ git status On branch mantis_0151 Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/mantis_0151'. nothing to commit, working directory clean mchaleg@ELT-L-0018 ~/Documents/BitBucket/electroroute_repositories/gudrun (mantis_0151) $ git log --oneline --decorate f0487e2 (HEAD, origin/mantis_0151, mantis_0151) mantis_0151 Finalised version of trigger with updated varaible names etc 24a0ae0 mantis_0151 get the tb_apx_fact_private_trades table trigger into line with what is in production as it currently isn't. Also add the create statement as well 

You can see from the output of git log that both branches are updated with the remote branch.

Having seen that both branches are updated, why is the message Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/branch' displayed only in the git status message of the mantis_0151 branch?

Answer 1

Git will show you this message if your branch is configured to track the remote branch. Your first branch does not seem.