On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote: > >>> You need to name the local branch, not the remote one: > >>> > >>> $ git push origin mybranch > >>> > >>> It should then push to remotebranch. > >> > >> Not only that, but the "ahead of tracked branch" message depends on > >> your local copy of the remote branch, not the remote copy of the > >> remote branch. > > > > I think we have long been doing so. Daniel, correct me. > > ...and I'm dumb. > > I apologize. "git pull origin mybranch" does not update > origin/mybranch. "git push origin mybranch" does. > > It could be argued that pull should update the local reference too, > but that's irrelevant at the moment. That is actually to say that fetch should do it (pull calls fetch for that part), and I agree with that, assuming you've actually got that fetch config, of course. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*
