# Report a bug, about track remote repository. 3 messages from 2012-10-20 to 2012-10-21. Participants: Cheeray Huang, Philip Oakley. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31878 ## Cheeray Huang, 2012-10-20 18:49 Subject: Report a bug, about track remote repository. Message-ID: <5082F255.9060600@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5082F255.9060600%40gmail.com ``` Hi, I think I found a bug, when I used local branches to track remote branch. But I'm not very sure, can anyone double check this? I'd like to finger this out. I think you can reproduce this bug as below steps: precondition: Suppose that you have a remote branch in repository, named origin/work. And then you want to track it with a local branch. Steps: 1. So you can do this: git checkout -t origin/work now, you have a local branch also named "work" to track "origin/work". It works nicely, you can use "push/pull" command without any detail parameters to sync anything with the remote branch. 2. Create another branch, ex. named "work2", to track "origin/work" again, though maybe there are not so many people that will do like this. You will find that local branch "work2" can't "push" to "origin/work". ex. After you committed something in work2, you typed "git status", git would tell you: Your branch is ahead of 'origin/work' by x commit. And then you used "git push", git can't display the information about changing hash value in remote branch, just printed "everything is up to date". Actually, you can use some exact parameters to solve this, such as: git push origin work2:work But, I still think it is a bug. BTW, I found this bug when I used github. I don't know whether it is related to github. -- B&R, Cheeray ``` ## Philip Oakley, 2012-10-20 23:46 Subject: Re: Report a bug, about track remote repository. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/F15116C3B49A439AB06C8068F79E4C0F%40PhilipOakley In-Reply-To: <5082F255.9060600@gmail.com> ``` From: "Cheeray Huang" > Hi, > > I think I found a bug, when I used local branches to track remote > branch. But I'm not very sure, can anyone double check this? I'd like > to finger this out. I think you can reproduce this bug as below steps: > > precondition: > > Suppose that you have a remote branch in repository, named > origin/work. And then you want to track it with a local branch. > > Steps: > > 1. So you can do this: > > git checkout -t origin/work > > now, you have a local branch also named "work" to track "origin/work". > It works nicely, you can use "push/pull" command without any detail > parameters to sync anything with the remote branch. > > 2. Create another branch, ex. named "work2", to track "origin/work" > again, though maybe there are not so many people that will do like > this. At this point you have created the 'conflict' - You can't have two different branches that both track the same identical remote branch and expect that they can be both different and identical at the same time. > > You will find that local branch "work2" can't "push" to "origin/work". > ex. After you committed something in work2, you typed "git status", > git would tell you: > > Your branch is ahead of 'origin/work' by x commit. > > And then you used "git push", git can't display the information about > changing hash value in remote branch, just printed "everything is up > to date". Only one push (from two branches trying) can suceed. You either force the remote to match the current branch, and loose any information that it had about the other branch, or the remote stays with one branch. Simply don't do it [that way]. If the local branches are different, then you need distinct remote branches. > > Actually, you can use some exact parameters to solve this, such as: > > git push origin work2:work > > But, I still think it is a bug. > > BTW, I found this bug when I used github. I don't know whether it is > related to github. > > > -- > B&R, > Cheeray ``` ## Cheeray Huang, 2012-10-21 02:44 Subject: Re: Report a bug, about track remote repository. Message-ID: <50836175.5020501@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/50836175.5020501%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 2012年10月21日 07:46, Philip Oakley wrote: > > At this point you have created the 'conflict' - You can't have two > different branches that both track the same identical remote branch > and expect that they can be both different and identical at the same > time. > Only one push (from two branches trying) can suceed. You either force > the remote to match the current branch, and loose any information that > it had about the other branch, or the remote stays with one branch. > Simply don't do it [that way]. If the local branches are different, > then you need distinct remote branches. Yes, if it will lead a conflict, I think git should give a warning for it and prevent these operations rather than give a comment to inform you to push something. -- Best Regards! Qiyu Huang( Cheeray ) ```