Re: branch ahead in commits but push claims all up to date

[John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>]

2009/3/24 Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/24 Irene Ros <imirene@gmail.com>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've been using git for some time now and haven't run into this issue
>> > before, perhaps someone else here has:
>> >
>> > I have a branch that is ahead of its origin by a few commits:
>> >
>> > $ git status
>> > # On branch myBranch
>> > # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/myBranch' by 10 commits.
>>
>> Tried running: git fetch   ?
>>
>> For some weird reason  "git push origin mybranch"  doesn't actually
>> update origin/mybranch.  It's more annoying :-)
>
> It should, so long as you're using the native transport and
> origin/mybranch actually tracks mybranch on origin.
>
> "git push" doesn't update it, but the code that implements the native
> transport does update it if it succeeds.
>
> (Actually, I'm not 100% sure that, if you update origin through some other
> channel with exactly the commit that you now have in mybranch locally, and
> then try the push, it will update the local tracking for that branch; is
> that what you've hit?)

I update via http - maybe that's why?  origin/mybranch is never
updated when I push.  It's not just a once-off quirk.

John