Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 16:51 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ross Boylan writes: > > >> Either > >> > >>git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master > > Great; that works. > > Is that procedure supposed to be the usual way I track upstrea

Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 14:41 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ross Boylan writes: > > > I still don't know what I need to do to update origin/master in my local > > repo. > > > > Regarding Kevin's suggestion, I just tried "git fetch origin master".

Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
head of the branch. For reasons given below, Chris's theory that there was a conflict also doesn't seem to apply. On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 19:40 +1200, Chris Packham wrote: > On 23/07/14 14:49, Ross Boylan wrote: > > My local master branch is the result of a merge of upstream m

Re: confused about remote branch management

2014-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 15:09 +0200, Kevin wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2014 5:11 AM, "Ross Boylan" wrote: > > > > My local master branch is the result of a merge of upstream master > and > > some local changes. I want to merge in more recent upstream work. >

confused about remote branch management

2014-07-22 Thread Ross Boylan
My local master branch is the result of a merge of upstream master and some local changes. I want to merge in more recent upstream work. git pull doesn't seem to have updated origin/master, and git checkout origin/master also doesn't seem to work. Here's some info that may be relevant. ross@tem