Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
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

Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
. For reasons given below, Chris's theory that there was a conflict also doesn't seem to apply. On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 19:40 +1200, Chris Packham wrote: On 23/07/14 14:49, Ross Boylan wrote: My local master branch is the result of a merge of upstream master and some local changes. I want to merge

Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 14:41 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu writes: I still don't know what I need to do to update origin/master in my local repo. Regarding Kevin's suggestion, I just tried git fetch origin master. I think Kevin's suggestion

Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 16:51 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu writes: Either git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master Great; that works. Is that procedure supposed to be the usual way I track upstream in this (1.7) version of git? It seems

confused about remote branch management

2014-07-22 Thread Ross Boylan
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. Here's some info that may be relevant.