Re: git not fetching from origin...

[Patrick McCarty]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:07:06PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> 
> On 5/24/09 10:57 PM, "Patrick McCarty" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 07:40:08PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
> > 
> > The "already up to date" means that all of your remote tracking
> > branches reflect the current state of the branches at git.sv.gnu.org,
> > and that your local branch has been updated accordingly.
> 
> Another way of saying this is that  "There are no changes on the
> remote repository that are not reflected in your local repository."
> Note that it doesn't mean there aren't changes in your local
> repository, as compared with the remote.

True.  I usually don't have to worry about this though, because I
always do my work on a separate local branch in order to keep the
master branch free of clutter.

-Patrick