How can I determine if the git submodule is really in front or behind it?

Question

I found an old question that answers this to some extent, but it is not entirely useful as it stands:

how can i find out that the git submodule has new commands

Basically, I was hoping that git has changed since 2012, which is easier.

When I do git statuswith my current setup, I get two types of output. Regular strings

modified: path/to/submodule (new commits)

And additional information about submodules like this

* path/to/submodule/
  < upstream repo
  < added more commits
  < you should update this submodule

* path/to/submodule/
  > These commits
  > don't exist upstream
  > you should commit this submodule

Git seems to know exactly what is going on, but I don't seem to have a tool to determine this.

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$ git --version
git version 1.8.5.3

Answer 1

:

git config status.submodulesummary -1
git status --long

, upstream repo.