[GTALUG] git questions

[Giles Orr]

About the same time you were sending this, a co-worker was telling me
about the virtues of "git fetch" as opposed to "git pull" which I've
used almost exclusively.  It makes a lot more sense now, thanks.

To everyone who answered: I think we can consider my problems (at
least the git ones!) solved, and many thanks.

On 6 March 2015 at 12:21, Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "git status" usually says "Your branch is up-to-date with
>> 'origin/master'" (or "ahead"), but occasionally - even though origin
>> is configured properly - this line doesn't appear.  Is there a way to
>> convince it to always show this line?
>>
>> Unfortunately, "git status" doesn't seem to ever notice if you're
>> "behind" origin, thus the need for "git remote show origin".  Any fix
>> for that?
>
> `git status` only looks at what's on your local file system.  You need
> to first do a `git fetch` to update your local information (doesn't
> change your code, just git's information), then `git status` will
> reflect what's actually happening.  Without some command that fetches
> things from the remote, `git status` will always say you're up-to-date
> (or ahead if you've committed things).
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