From: Stefanie Leisestreichler Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:02:20 GMT Subject: Git diff|status against remote repo Message-ID: <3218b394-4dcf-0b99-c561-b1811f0be3d6@peter-speer.de> Hi. I am far from being a pro in git. There is something I do not understand. This is my git config: [core]         repositoryformatversion = 0         filemode = true         bare = false         logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"]         url = ssh://git@192.168.2.2:/home/git/PROJECT.git         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"]         remote = origin         merge = refs/heads/master [branch "develop"]         remote = origin         merge = refs/heads/develop I have a local repo called "develop" also on each involved dev machine. Developer A has made changes on nearly each file of the project by changing the namespace and locally commited those changes to his local branch "develop". After that he did a git push. On a not involved machine M I did a git clone ssh://git@192.168.2.2:/home/git/PROJECT.git and after that I did a "git checkout develop" which was followed by a message like "Branch develop is following remote branch develop from origin". I can see all the changes Developer A has made. On my machine DEV I am on my local branch develop. Since I did not pull or merge from origin already, I am not able to see any of those changes developer A has made. So far so good. But I would expect, that git status (which results in "On branch develop. Your branch is up to date with origin/develop) or "git diff origin/develop develop" or "git diff origin/develop...develop" (both no output at all) would give me a hint that I am x commits behind origin/master or (git diff) will show me the changes Developer A committed to the Repro. But nothing... What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Steffi