Re: Aw: Re: Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.comp.version-control.git as well. Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Thomas Ackermann th.ac...@arcor.de writes: But for the simple use case where you only have a master branch I consider it not really helpful and - at least for me - misleading. I see what you mean, and you're not the only one. Git follows a rule of never contact another machine unless explicitly asked to using a command such as 'git pull' or 'git fetch'. To support this, it makes a distinction between (1) the remote-tracking ref origin/master and (2) the actual branch master in the remote repository. The former is what is updated by 'git fetch', and the latter is something git does not know about without talking to the remote server. What documentation did you use when first starting to learn git? Perhaps it can be fixed to emphasize the distinction between (1) and (2) earlier. I think it's not the problem of the documentation but of myself not having it read thorough enough ;-) (This new feature in V1.8.5 of course is not documented in any of the books up to now but in the future could be used to explain the above mentioned rule.) By the way, this is nothing new in 1.8.5; we didn't bother saying up-to-date before, so you may not have noticed, but its silence was already telling you that your branch was up-to-date with respect to what you are building on top of. Maybe it would be worthwhile to add a message like (last fetched from upstream branch at [date]), taken from $GIT_DIR/logs/refs/remotes/foo/bar ? This would mitigate the confusion Thomas suffered, I think. Caveat: pretty ill-defined, since 1) if you've been pushing and not fetching, the most recent time at which it is known that your remote-tracking branch was up to date could be much newer than when it was technically last fetched; 2) the upstream branch might not even be a remote-tracking branch; 3) probably something else I haven't thought of. -Keshav -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'
Hi, Thomas Ackermann wrote: In repo_b your ref for origin/master has not moved. It has remotely (meaning refs/heads/master in repo_a has moved), but git status is not hitting the remote to find out; it only looks at the local state. [...] But for the simple use case where you only have a master branch I consider it not really helpful and - at least for me - misleading. I see what you mean, and you're not the only one. Git follows a rule of never contact another machine unless explicitly asked to using a command such as 'git pull' or 'git fetch'. To support this, it makes a distinction between (1) the remote-tracking ref origin/master and (2) the actual branch master in the remote repository. The former is what is updated by 'git fetch', and the latter is something git does not know about without talking to the remote server. What documentation did you use when first starting to learn git? Perhaps it can be fixed to emphasize the distinction between (1) and (2) earlier. Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Aw: Re: Re: Re: [Bug report] 'git status' always says Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'
But for the simple use case where you only have a master branch I consider it not really helpful and - at least for me - misleading. I see what you mean, and you're not the only one. Git follows a rule of never contact another machine unless explicitly asked to using a command such as 'git pull' or 'git fetch'. To support this, it makes a distinction between (1) the remote-tracking ref origin/master and (2) the actual branch master in the remote repository. The former is what is updated by 'git fetch', and the latter is something git does not know about without talking to the remote server. What documentation did you use when first starting to learn git? Perhaps it can be fixed to emphasize the distinction between (1) and (2) earlier. I think it's not the problem of the documentation but of myself not having it read thorough enough ;-) (This new feature in V1.8.5 of course is not documented in any of the books up to now but in the future could be used to explain the above mentioned rule.) Thanks to you, Bryan and Jiang for your help! --- Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
