Strange branch merging.

[Adam Panayis <adam@movency.com>]

Hi, I have just started using git and am having  a problem with 2 
branches appearing merged.

I have a local machine, on this I have 2 branches. The master and one 
named blah. My git repository is in the following location: /git/.git/

I have made changes to a file on the blah branch and committed these 
changes.

I checkout the master branch and as expected the changes are no longer 
there. I flip back to blah and I can see my changes. So far so good.

I then, on a remote machine use the pull command, the remote machine 
shows only the master branch as I have not asked it to pull blah. The 
command I use is as follows: git pull -v ssh://user@machine one/git/.git/

Once this is done I double check my branches and it shows I still only 
have the master. Perfect. However, when I check the file I edited on my 
local machine on the blah branch, the changes are there.

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding the correct usage of git? Is this 
result expected?

Thanks