From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:32:37 GMT
Subject: Re: branch ahead in commits but push claims all up to date
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0903251032kba19d27gc066b04081a88082@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7001b7a00903251023r1ce5cc0dnb29b7f9379408c42@mail.gmail.com>

2009/3/25 Irene Ros <imirene@gmail.com>:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for the explanation, doing a git fetch actually did do the
> trick although I still don't quite see the difference between
> git pull origin myBranch

This fetches myBranch from origin, and merges with the current branch.

> and
> git fetch

This fetches and *saves* the configured branches (all by default) from
the configured remote (origin by default).

>
> When I push to origin myBranch it's clear that it actually pushes my
> changes to our remote repository since others can then pull and get
> them. So is it the case that:
>
> git push ==> actual remote repository
> while
> git pull <== local copy of remote repository for this branch ?

I don't know if I understand correctly, but pull always uses the
branches from the remote repository, but depending on how you call it
it will also update the local copy (origin/*).

HTH,
Santi