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

[Irene Ros <imirene@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

Thank you for the good advice. I may be the case I am somehow misusing
git... I couldn't resolve the issue and so I created a new project off
of the same repo. Switching to the same branch in question yielded an
even stranger result: In this new project, the commits were there (I
could see them in git log and in git log origin/myBranch) whereas in
the previous older project I did not... does that make sense? Our
origin branches are located on a central server so can't quite figure
out why viewing the log of the same remote branch from two different
projects would yield different results. Any suggestions? At this
point, I'm just really curious.

-- Irene



On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yup, http doesn't have it. One of my series currently in next moves it
> from the git-specific protocol to the common code, but there's still work
> to be done to allow the http push transport to report back to the common
> code what got updated successfully, which is largely a matter of making
> the http-push code run in-process instead of as a command run by
> transport.c, and using the just-added API.
>
>        -Daniel
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