Re: Get "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master'" message when explicitly passing origin url at push command

[Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 4:39 AM Bentzy Sagiv <bentzy.sagiv@firemon.com> wrote:
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> git version 2.7.4
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> First try: NOT passing origin url explicitly
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> ubuntu@ci-bentzy:/var/lib/jenkins$ sudo git push

Since you didn't specify a remote here, Git assumes origin. It uses
your configured "push.default" behavior ("simple" by default) to
determine which refs to push and pushes your master branch to the
origin's master branch. Since it _knows_ it pushed to origin, it
updates your local "refs/remotes/origin/master" ref with the same
commit it just pushed, resulting in an "up-to-date" message.

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> ubuntu@ci-bentzy:/var/lib/jenkins$ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
> nothing to commit, working directory clean
> ubuntu@ci-bentzy:/var/lib/jenkins$
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> Second try: passing origin url explicitily
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> ubuntu@ci-bentzy:/var/lib/jenkins$ sudo git push https://bitbucket.org/OWNER/jenkinsconf-repo.git

This, on the other hand, _is not pushing to a configured remote_. It's
pushing to an explicit URL, which happens to match the URL of a
configured remote. But it's still not a configured remote. It's using
origin's URL, but you didn't push to origin. As a result,
"refs/remotes/origin/master" is not updated, and you get an "ahead"
message.

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> ubuntu@ci-bentzy:/var/lib/jenkins$ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
>   (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
> nothing to commit, working directory clean
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> An additional " sudo git push" (without explicit origin) solves the issue

Everything here is working as intended. If you want to push to a
_remote_, you either need to:
- Name the remote ("git push origin"), or
- Leave it off, so Git will assume origin ("git push")

Pushing to a URL that matches a remote's URL is _not_ pushing to a
remote. It's pushing to an explicit URL.

Hope this helps,
Bryan Turner
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