git: Your branch is ahead by X commits
How does this actually come about?
I am working in one repo by myself at the moment, so this is my workflow:
Then when I do a git status it tells me that my branch is ahead by X commits (presumably the same number of commits that I have made). Is it because when you push the code it doesn't actually update your locally cached files (in the .git folders)? git pull seems to 'fix' this strange message, but I am still curious why it happens, maybe I am using git wrong?
including what branch is printed in the message
My local branch is ahead of master
where do you push/pull the current branch
I am pushing to GitHub and pulling to whichever computer I happen to be working on at that point in time, my local copy is always fully up to date as I am the only one working on it.
it doesn't actually check the remote repo
That is what I thought, I figured that I would make sure my understanding of it was correct.
are you passing some extra arguments to it?
Not ones that I can see, maybe there is some funny config going on on my end?
$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
If you get this message after doing a git pull remote branch , try following it up with a git fetch . (Optionally, run git fetch -p to prune deleted branches from the repo)
Fetch seems to update the local representation of the remote branch, which doesn't necessarily happen when you do a git pull remote branch .
Use
git pull --rebase
The --rebase option means that git will move your local commit aside, synchronise with the remote and then try to apply your commits from the new state.
I think you're misreading the message — your branch isn't ahead of master , it is master . It's ahead of origin/master , which is a remote tracking branch that records the status of the remote repository from your last push , pull , or fetch . It's telling you exactly what you did; you got ahead of the remote and it's reminding you to push.
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