From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:12:59 GMT
Subject: Re: origin/branchname and tracking branch pointing to different commits?
Message-ID: <201001071813.01187.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8581001070903i3810f63crd764d451f7454584@mail.gmail.com>

Eugene Sajine wrote:
> $git pull origin qa
[...]
> So, generally, speaking qa branch is fine and is in synch with the
> remote mainline, but the state of local origin/qa is not clear.

'git pull $remote $branch' does not update the $remote/$branch
remote-tracking branch; it stores in FETCH_HEAD and merges straight
from there.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch