On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 15:09 +0200, Kevin wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2014 5:11 AM, "Ross Boylan" <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > > > My local master branch is the result of a merge of upstream master > and > > some local changes. I want to merge in more recent upstream work. > > git pull doesn't seem to have updated origin/master, and git > checkout > > origin/master also doesn't seem to work. > > > > git pull with two parameters in older versions will not update remote > tracking branches. That's because the last parameter expects a refspec > with a source and destination and you only specify a source. My command was "git pull origin master" so I think it has a source as well. > > Doing a git fetch will update them. I thought git pull = get fetch + git merge. Are you saying that if I issued those 2 commands separately the result would have been different? Ross > > > ross@tempserver:~/UCSF/Choi/GitHub/ESS$ git --version > > git version 1.7.10.4 > > Version 1.8.4 changes this behavior and will update the remote > tracking branches. > >
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