Re: Local branch ahead of tracked remote branch but git push claims everything up-to-date

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Aug 20, 2008, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0808201808400.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130808201422l2b128beer142544ff91de5ca3@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > "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.
> 
> ...and I'm dumb.
> 
> I apologize.  "git pull origin mybranch" does not update
> origin/mybranch.  "git push origin mybranch" does.
> 
> It could be argued that pull should update the local reference too,
> but that's irrelevant at the moment.

That is actually to say that fetch should do it (pull calls fetch for that part), and I agree with that, assuming you've actually got that fetch config, of course.

	-Daniel
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