Re: Branch "ahead of tracked remote branch"

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2008, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <18450.2380.655635.387709@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0804242349460.19665@iabervon.org>

On Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 23:59:44 (-0400) Daniel Barkalow writes:

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>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> I had some work in master, I decided to move to a branch to complete,
>> so:
>> 
>> % git checkout -b branch
>> % git commit -a -m "Insightful message"
>> 
>> Then, I decided this was not such a good idea, so I did a git reset
>> --soft HEAD^, then git reset HEAD for each file I committed, thinking
>> that this was a complete "undo".  I then switched to branch master
>> and got this:
>> 
>> Switched to branch "master"
>> Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
>> 
>> I'm not sure this is accurate.  Does this seem correct?
>
>It's certainly possible. It looks like you committed once on your own 
>master branch before you did any of the things mentioned in this message. 
>Then you created a new branch, made a commit on it, undid the commit, and 
>switched back to "master". "git log origin/master..master" will show you 
>the 1 commit that you have on master.

Ah, ok, now I think I understand --- if I do a fetch (or pull) on master, switch over to the other branch, and then back, I see no such message. Thanks.

Bill