Re: Incorrect branch information after fetching (local branch != remote branch)

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2022, 06:42 UTC
Message-ID: <bcb069c7-f104-a494-1862-30709dc6f8a0@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7d73rwnq.fsf@gitster.g>

On 5/3/22 12:51, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> The verbose report left by "git fetch" tells us what branch they
> have is used to update what branch we have, so I think this is
> pretty much expected.
> 
> I am puzzled by your mention of 'net-next' (local).
> 
> You may have
> 
>     [branch "net-next"]
>         remote = net-next
> 	merge = master
> 
> and that is where your expectation on the local may be coming from,
> but it wouldn't be all that relevant to "git fetch". The update of
> the local branch will happen long after "git fetch" is done.
>

Ah I see.

So the left-hand side of verbose report (local branch) is actually the value of branch."net-next".merge, right?

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