From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Woody Wu Subject: Re: How to specify remote branch correctly Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1355722245-ner-6603@calvin> <1355728904-ner-4851@calvin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 17 08:42:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TkVKz-0008DD-4v for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:42:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751530Ab2LQHlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:41:52 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39656 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387Ab2LQHlv (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:41:51 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TkVKr-00087R-L3 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:42:01 +0100 Received: from 59.37.26.98 ([59.37.26.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:42:01 +0100 Received: from narkewoody by 59.37.26.98 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:42:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.37.26.98 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2012-12-17, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:02:46 +0000, Woody Wu wrote: >> On 2012-12-17, Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> > 'git checkout foo' has special meaning if a local branch with that >> > name doesn't exist but there is a remote branch with that name. In >> > that case it's equivalent to: git checkout -t -b foo origin/foo. >> > Because that's what people usually want. >> >> I think this is what exactly happened to me in the first time I got the >> 'foo'. One new thing to me is the '-t'. I am not sure wether the '-t' >> was used or not in the background. How do I check the 'upstream' >> relationships? Is there any file under .git recoreded that kind of >> information? > > Yes, that information is recorded in a file somewhere in .git. However, for > most users it's irrelevant which file it is. Git has commands to access this > information. Try one of these: > > git branch -vv Run this on my local linux tree, I got: lgf2410-2.6.16.4 7af1fda - added a ignore rule in .gitignore (*~) * lgf2410-2.6.34.13 50d3f9d ax88796b verbose debug output lgf2410-2.6.34.13-16C554 3ec82e0 more debug on 16C554 master 9489e9d [origin/master] Linux 3.7-rc7 Does this mean, I only have local branch master tracked to remote? > git remote show origin Running this I got, ... linux-3.1.y tracked linux-3.2.y tracked linux-3.3.y tracked linux-3.4.y tracked linux-3.5.y tracked linux-3.6.y tracked linux-3.7.y new (next fetch will store in remotes/origin) master tracked Local branch configured for 'git pull': master rebases onto remote master Local ref configured for 'git push': master pushes to master (local out of date) I am curious to know how the last 4 lines were printed by git. ----- Local branch configured for 'git pull': master rebases onto remote master ----- If I have addtional branch other than master that also track to some remote branch, will it also be listed under this 'git pull' line? ---- Local ref configured for 'git push': master pushes to master (local out of date) --- This I totally don't understand, what it mean? I think I did not do a modification on the local 'master'. Thanks! -- woody I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.