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PO'git pull origin mybranch' leaves local mybranch N commits ahead of origin. Why?
 

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    <p>I just observed something odd about <code>git pull</code>, which I don't understand.</p> <p>On Friday, I worked on a local branch. let's call it <code>mybranch</code>. Before leaving the office I pushed it to origin (which is my github repo): <code>git push origin mybranch</code>.</p> <p>Yesterday at home, I <code>pull</code>ed mybranch to my laptop, did some more coding, and then pushed my changes back to github (origin).</p> <p>Now I'm at work again, and tried to pull the changes from yesterday to my work machine (I didn't change anything in my work place's local repo over the weekend):</p> <pre><code>git pull origin mybranch </code></pre> <p>that caused a fast forward merge, which is fine. I then did a <code>git status</code>, and it said:</p> <pre><code># On branch mybranch # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/mybranch' by 6 commits. # nothing to commit (working directory clean) </code></pre> <p>Huh? How can it be 6 commits ahead when I didn't even touch it over the weekend, AND just pulled from origin? So I ran a <code>git diff origin/mybranch</code> and the diffs were exactly the 6 changes I just pulled from remote.</p> <p>I could only "fix" this by running <code>git fetch origin</code>:</p> <pre><code>From git@github.com:me/project af8be00..88b0738 mybranch -&gt; origin/mybranch </code></pre> <p>Apparently, my local repo was missing some reference objects, but how can that be? I mean, a pull does a fetch already, and I didn't work on anything except that branch, so a <code>git fetch origin</code> and <code>git fetch origin mybranch</code> should have the same result?</p> <p>Should I always use <code>git pull origin</code> instead of <code>git pull origin branchname</code>?</p> <p>I'm confused.</p>
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    1. COI've noticed this too; a `git push` will also seem to solve it (reporting "all up to date").
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    2. CO`git config --get-regexp br.*` can tell you if your config has a a local branch is tracking another branch
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    3. COCan you type `git config branch.master.remote yourGitHubRepo.git` in your workRepo and check (at the next `git pull origin`) if the status remains with a 'ahead' warning?
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