Confused about tracking git master

From: Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2006, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <m2wtdmg3in.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org>

Hi,

I'm tracking git and somehow getting confused about how to get updates.

To start, I did: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

To get updates, I _think_ all I have to do is 'git pull'. Doing so I get:

    Unpacking 157 objects
     100% (157/157) done
    * refs/heads/todo: same as branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
    * refs/heads/maint: same as branch 'maint' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
    * refs/heads/origin: same as branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
    * refs/heads/pu: does not fast forward to branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git;
      not updating.

Then when I do git whatchanged, the last change is on Saturday the 15th. I'm figuring there has probably been at least one commit since then? So I tried 'git checkout origin' and then repeated the whatchanged call and see:

    diff-tree 2855d58... (from bb99661...)
    Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
    Date:   Mon Apr 17 17:46:07 2006 -0700

Is there a step I'm missing? Or am I just misunderstanding what to expect? Clarification on either of those would be appreciated.

Thanks,

+ seth