On Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 23:59:44 (-0400) Daniel Barkalow writes: >On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Bill Lear wrote: > >> I had some work in master, I decided to move to a branch to complete, >> so: >> >> % git checkout -b branch >> % git commit -a -m "Insightful message" >> >> Then, I decided this was not such a good idea, so I did a git reset >> --soft HEAD^, then git reset HEAD for each file I committed, thinking >> that this was a complete "undo". I then switched to branch master >> and got this: >> >> Switched to branch "master" >> Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 1 commit. >> >> I'm not sure this is accurate. Does this seem correct? > >It's certainly possible. It looks like you committed once on your own >master branch before you did any of the things mentioned in this message. >Then you created a new branch, made a commit on it, undid the commit, and >switched back to "master". "git log origin/master..master" will show you >the 1 commit that you have on master. Ah, ok, now I think I understand --- if I do a fetch (or pull) on master, switch over to the other branch, and then back, I see no such message. Thanks. Bill -- 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
