On Jul 23, 2014 5:11 AM, "Ross Boylan" <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Doing a git fetch will update them. > 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. -- 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