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

From: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2014, 09:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CANYiYbH46EiS5iCEzGOi58Kgr+aCz_67vHsvRu=xSfuYUxosRg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1963290835.719443.1388996669450.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail15.arcor-online.net>

2014/1/6 Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>:

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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"

Oops. Do

    git fetch

then

    git checkout master

You will get what you want.

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> 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.
>

-- Jiang Xin