From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:22:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Local branch ahead of tracked remote branch but git push claims everything up-to-date
Message-ID: <32541b130808201422l2b128beer142544ff91de5ca3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpznpeup.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
>>> You need to name the local branch, not the remote one:
>>>
>>> $ git push origin mybranch
>>>
>>> It should then push to remotebranch.
>>
>> Not only that, but the "ahead of tracked branch" message depends on
>> your local copy of the remote branch, not the remote copy of the
>> remote branch.
>
> I think we have long been doing so.  Daniel, correct me.

...and I'm dumb.

I apologize.  "git pull origin mybranch" does not update
origin/mybranch.  "git push origin mybranch" does.

It could be argued that pull should update the local reference too,
but that's irrelevant at the moment.

Have fun,

Avery