On 5/3/22 12:51, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The verbose report left by "git fetch" tells us what branch they > have is used to update what branch we have, so I think this is > pretty much expected. > > I am puzzled by your mention of 'net-next' (local). > > You may have > > [branch "net-next"] > remote = net-next > merge = master > > and that is where your expectation on the local may be coming from, > but it wouldn't be all that relevant to "git fetch". The update of > the local branch will happen long after "git fetch" is done. > Ah I see. So the left-hand side of verbose report (local branch) is actually the value of branch."net-next".merge, right? -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara