On 14 August 2012 09:02, PJ Weisberg <pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > <hilco.wijbenga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A colleague of mine (after a relatively long absence) noticed the >> following when running "git status": >> >> # On branch master >> # Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, >> # and have 250 and 19 different commit(s) each, respectively. >> # >> nothing to commit (working directory clean) >> >> He asked me what to do and I told him to do what has always worked for >> me in the past when something like this happened: gitk, "reset master >> branch to here" (to a commit before the divergence and using --hard), >> git pull origin master. Problem solved. >> >> Well, not this one. This one is persistent. :-) I am at a loss what to >> do. "master" and "origin/master" do *not* point at the same commit. >> Even after the "git reset --hard ..." and "git pull". Running my >> silver bullet solution gets us in the same situation every time. > > I assume that the commit you reset to wasn't actually before the > divergence, then. It was according to gitk. > It sounds like what you're trying to do is just > long-hand for 'git reset --hard origin/master'. As mentioned before, > that *does* assume that you want to throw out everything you've > committed locally. If that's *not* the case, try 'git rebase > origin/master' or 'git pull --rebase'. And then go slap the person > who rewrote the history of origin/master. I'm not convinced anything is wrong with origin/master. This particular colleague is the only one with a problem. And not for the first time. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html