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> The expectation is that the information you get is up-to-date as of the time you started the status command,

Why is that the expectation of a “distributed VCS”?

It is not - it is the expectation of the phrase "up to date". You don't have to alter reality, you can just alter the description of reality to be a little more conversationally precise.

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