From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Local branch ahead of tracked remote branch but git push claims everything up-to-date
Message-ID: <7vbpznpeup.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130808201401l2ad105ccnc37acdacd08d4c3a@mail.gmail.com>

"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.