pull/merge --no-commit

Hello, I'm new to git, thought I'd take it for a spin. Found what seems to me to be a problem, hoping someone can shed light on it.

I /really/ want --no-commit to work, bit it doesn't seem to:

I run:      git pull --no-commit ssh://<blah blah blah>

then I run: git status

it says:    nothing to commit (working directory clean)

then I run: git log

it shows the commit message from the other user below a commit sha1, and the change I pulled was indeed merged to my file.

Does this seem to be a bug, or am I doing something wrong? BTW, merge --no-commit gives me the same problem. It merges fine but does the commit.

I put a 'set -x' in the git-merge shell script (which gets called by pull) from one of my 'pull' runs, I have the output if anyone wants it.

-Kurt