Aw: Re: Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'"

> > But for the simple use case where you only have a master
> > branch I consider it not really helpful and - at least for me -
> > misleading.
> 
> I see what you mean, and you're not the only one.
> 
> Git follows a rule of "never contact another machine unless explicitly
> asked to using a command such as 'git pull' or 'git fetch'".  To
> support this, it makes a distinction between (1) the remote-tracking
> ref origin/master and (2) the actual branch "master" in the remote
> repository.  The former is what is updated by 'git fetch', and the
> latter is something git does not know about without talking to the
> remote server.
> 
> What documentation did you use when first starting to learn git?
> Perhaps it can be fixed to emphasize the distinction between (1) and
> (2) earlier.