On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:54:00PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I'm trying to test some changes I made on a branch on some other > machines. The changes were committed and pushed. However, after a > checkout and pull on the other machines the changes were missing. > > When I do a 'git branch' I am on master for some reason: > > $ git branch > cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE > config-guess > declarations > * master > > However, I have never switched back to master: Perhaps you haven't switched away from 'master' in the first place. > $ history | grep git | grep -E 'master|cmake' > ... > 2630 git checkout cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE This could have failed because the branch 'cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE' didn't exist. > 2631 git fetch upstream cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE This fetched the branch 'cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE' that exists on the remote and stored the commit object id at its tip in FETCH_HEAD, but it didn't create a local branch of the same name. > 2632 git checkout cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE > 2634 git checkout cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE So these two failed as well, because there was no such branch. > 2635 git branch cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE Here you do create a branch called 'cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE' (pointing to the currently checked out commit in your local repository, which is most likely not where it points to in the remote repo), but you haven't checked it out. > 2757 git diff upstream/master > 2766 history | grep git | grep -E 'master|cmake' > <end of history> > > How am I on master when I checked out cmake-inno-setup-COVERAGE? Did you? We can't tell without you telling us what the output of all those commands were.