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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>,
	ir0s <imirene@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Daniel Barkalow" <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: Local branch ahead of tracked remote branch but git push claims everything up-to-date
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:22:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130808201422l2b128beer142544ff91de5ca3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbpznpeup.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
>>> You need to name the local branch, not the remote one:
>>>
>>> $ git push origin mybranch
>>>
>>> It should then push to remotebranch.
>>
>> Not only that, but the "ahead of tracked branch" message depends on
>> your local copy of the remote branch, not the remote copy of the
>> remote branch.
>
> I think we have long been doing so.  Daniel, correct me.

...and I'm dumb.

I apologize.  "git pull origin mybranch" does not update
origin/mybranch.  "git push origin mybranch" does.

It could be argued that pull should update the local reference too,
but that's irrelevant at the moment.

Have fun,

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-20 20:26 Local branch ahead of tracked remote branch but git push claims everything up-to-date ir0s
2008-08-20 20:37 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-20 20:40 ` Andreas Färber
2008-08-20 21:01   ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-20 21:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-20 21:22       ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2008-08-20 22:25         ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-20 22:46           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 15:35             ` ir0s
2008-08-21 16:22               ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-21 16:53                 ` ir0s
2008-08-22 14:09                   ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-21 16:55                 ` ir0s

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