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Re: git pull bug report

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2021, 20:40 UTC
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Erwin Villejo <erwinvillejo@gmail.com> writes:
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> $ git pull
> hint: You have divergent branches and need to specify how to reconcile them.
> ...
> hint: invocation.
> fatal: Need to specify how to reconcile divergent branches.
> ```
>
>> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
> I expected no failure and no-op since local is ahead of upstream.
> Instead, `git pull`
> fails because it thinks the branches have diverged.

I think this was fixed at 361cb523 (pull: --ff-only should make it a noop when already-up-to-date, 2021-10-20); it was broken between Git 2.33 and Git 2.33.1, IIRC.

Thanks.
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