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Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'"

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Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2014, 08:48 UTC
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On 6 January 2014 01:24, Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> wrote:
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>
> Hi Jiang,
>
> this happens with all of my repo clones (I am using V1.8.5.2
> on Windows and on Linux). Steps to reproduce:
>
> mkdir repo_a && cd repo_a && git init .
> echo "1">foo && git add foo && git commit -m "1"
> cd ..
> git clone repo_a repo_b
> cd repo_a
> echo "2">foo && git add foo && git commit -m "2"
> cd ../repo_b
> git status
> git checkout -b "branch"
> git checkout master
>
> 'git status' and 'git checkout master' in repo_b are now
> reporting "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'"
> which is obviously wrong.
>

Unfortunately that's not true. In repo_b your ref for origin/master has not moved. It has remotely (meaning refs/heads/master in repo_a has moved), but git status is not hitting the remote to find out; it only looks at the local state. To see what I mean, run git fetch in repo_b. Once you do that, you'll see that git status correctly reports you're behind.

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> ---
> Thomas
>
> ----- Original Nachricht ----
> Von:     Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
> An:      Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
> Datum:   06.01.2014 06:31
> Betreff: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says "Your branch is up-to-date
>  with 'origin/master'"
>
> > 2014/1/5 Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>:
> > > Since f223459 "status: always show tracking branch even no change"
> > > 'git status' (and 'git checkout master' always says
> > > "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'"
> > > even if 'origin/master' is way ahead from local 'master'.
> >
> > Hi, Thomas
> >
> > Can you provide your operations so that I can reproduce this issue?
> >
> > In the commit you mentioned above, there was a new test case named
> > 'checkout (up-to-date with upstream)' added in 't6040'. I also add two
> > test-cases locally in order to reproduce the issue you report, and run
> > them in arbitrary orders, but they all look fine:
> >
> >     ok 4 - checkout (behind upstream)
> >     ok 5 - checkout (ahead upstream)
> >     ok 6 - checkout (diverged from upstream)
> >     ok 7 - checkout with local tracked branch
> >     ok 8 - checkout (upstream is gone)
> >     ok 9 - checkout (up-to-date with upstream)
> >     ok 10 - checkout (upstream is gone)
> >     ok 11 - checkout with local tracked branch
> >     ok 12 - checkout (diverged from upstream)
> >     ok 13 - checkout (ahead upstream)
> >     ok 14 - checkout (behind upstream)
> >     ok 15 - checkout (diverged from upstream)
> >     ok 16 - checkout (upstream is gone)
> >     ok 17 - checkout (ahead upstream)
> >     ok 18 - checkout with local tracked branch
> >     ok 19 - checkout (behind upstream)
> >
> >
> > The two additional test cases I used locally are:
> >
> >     checkout_test1() {
> >     test_expect_success 'checkout (behind upstream)' '
> >             (
> >                     cd test && git checkout b3
> >             ) >actual &&
> >             test_i18ngrep "is behind .* by 1 commit, and can be
> > fast-forwarded" actual
> >     '
> >     }
> >
> >     checkout_test_2() {
> >     test_expect_success 'checkout (ahead upstream)' '
> >             (
> >                     cd test && git checkout b4
> >             ) >actual &&
> >             test_i18ngrep "is ahead of .* by 2 commits" actual
> >     '
> >     }
> >
> > --
> > Jiang Xin
> >
>
> ---
> Thomas
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  1. Thomas AckermannJan 6, 2014
  2. Bryan TurnerJan 6, 2014
  3. Aw: Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'"Thomas Ackermann, Jan 6, 2014
  4. Jonathan NiederJan 6, 2014
  5. Aw: Re: Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'"Thomas Ackermann, Jan 6, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2014
  7. Keshav KiniJan 14, 2014
  8. Jiang XinJan 6, 2014

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