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Branch "ahead of tracked remote branch"

Subject: Branch "ahead of tracked remote branch"

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3 messages between Apr 25, 2008 and Apr 25, 2008.

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Bill Lear· Apr 25, 2008, 02:03 UTC · lore

I had some work in master, I decided to move to a branch to complete, so:

% git checkout -b branch % git commit -a -m "Insightful message"

Then, I decided this was not such a good idea, so I did a git reset --soft HEAD^, then git reset HEAD for each file I committed, thinking that this was a complete "undo". I then switched to branch master and got this:

Switched to branch "master" Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 1 commit.

I'm not sure this is accurate.  Does this seem correct?

Bill

Daniel Barkalow· Apr 25, 2008, 03:59 UTC · re: Bill Lear · lore

Re: Branch "ahead of tracked remote branch"

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Bill Lear wrote:

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> I had some work in master, I decided to move to a branch to complete,
> so:
> 
> % git checkout -b branch
> % git commit -a -m "Insightful message"
> 
> Then, I decided this was not such a good idea, so I did a git reset
> --soft HEAD^, then git reset HEAD for each file I committed, thinking
> that this was a complete "undo".  I then switched to branch master
> and got this:
> 
> Switched to branch "master"
> Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
> 
> I'm not sure this is accurate.  Does this seem correct?

It's certainly possible. It looks like you committed once on your own master branch before you did any of the things mentioned in this message. Then you created a new branch, made a commit on it, undid the commit, and switched back to "master". "git log origin/master..master" will show you the 1 commit that you have on master.

	-Daniel
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Bill Lear· Apr 25, 2008, 16:39 UTC · re: Daniel Barkalow · lore

Re: Branch "ahead of tracked remote branch"

On Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 23:59:44 (-0400) Daniel Barkalow writes:

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>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> I had some work in master, I decided to move to a branch to complete,
>> so:
>> 
>> % git checkout -b branch
>> % git commit -a -m "Insightful message"
>> 
>> Then, I decided this was not such a good idea, so I did a git reset
>> --soft HEAD^, then git reset HEAD for each file I committed, thinking
>> that this was a complete "undo".  I then switched to branch master
>> and got this:
>> 
>> Switched to branch "master"
>> Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
>> 
>> I'm not sure this is accurate.  Does this seem correct?
>
>It's certainly possible. It looks like you committed once on your own 
>master branch before you did any of the things mentioned in this message. 
>Then you created a new branch, made a commit on it, undid the commit, and 
>switched back to "master". "git log origin/master..master" will show you 
>the 1 commit that you have on master.

Ah, ok, now I think I understand --- if I do a fetch (or pull) on master, switch over to the other branch, and then back, I see no such message. Thanks.

Bill