Contents
- 1 How do you check if branch is behind?
- 2 How do you check if branch is up to date with master?
- 3 How do I know if I need git pull?
- 4 Were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind?
- 5 How can a branch be ahead and behind?
- 6 What happens when a new branch is created in Magit?
- 7 How to see how many commits a local branch is ahead / behind another?
How do you check if branch is behind?
From this answer.
- Do a fetch: git fetch .
- Get how many commits current branch is behind: behind_count = $(git rev-list –count HEAD..
- Get how many commits current branch is ahead: ahead_count = $(git rev-list –count @{u}..
- If both behind_count and ahead_count are 0, then current branch is up to date.
How do you check if branch is up to date with master?
you can use git status -uno to check if your local branch is up-to-date with the origin one.
Why is my branch ahead of Master?
This message is telling you that you’ve made some changes locally, and you’re now ahead of the origin server. In a sense, this message is a reminder that you need to push your changes back to the origin server.
What is behind and ahead in git?
branch is X commits behind means that there are X new (unmerged) commits on the branch which is being tracked by your current branch. branch is X commits ahead analogously means that your branch has X new commits, which haven’t been merged into the tracked branch yet.
How do I know if I need git pull?
Run git fetch (remote) to update your remote refs, it’ll show you what’s new. Then, when you checkout your local branch, it will show you whether it’s behind upstream. It can differentiate between common situations, like pull needed and push needed, and it is multithreaded, so the fetch happens all at once.
Were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind?
“the tip of your current branch is behind its remote counterpart” means that there have been changes on the remote branch that you don’t have locally. There tend to be 2 types of changes to the remote branch: someone added commits or someone modified the history of the branch (usually some sort of rebase).
What to do if branch is ahead of Master?
There are several options, depending on what you want to do:
- git push : move your changes to the remote (this might get rejected if there are already other changes on the remote)
- do nothing and keep coding, sync another day.
- git pull : get the changes (if any) from the remote and merge them into your changes.
How do you solve your branch is ahead of origin master by 1 commit?
git – Your branch is ahead of ‘origin/master’ by 1 commit
- Make your change.
- git add – this stages your changes for committing.
- git commit – this commits your staged changes locally.
- git push – this pushes your committed changes to a remote.
How can a branch be ahead and behind?
A branch can be both ahead and behind at the same time if you have made changes to your branch, and someone else have made changes on the default branch that you have not merged into your branch yet. I have a branch with 6 commits, and it shows 4 commits behind master in Bitbucket Cloud.
What happens when a new branch is created in Magit?
When a new branch is created, then the branch, commit, or stash at point is suggested as the starting point of the new branch, or if there is no such revision at point the current branch. In either case the user may choose another starting point.
What is the transient prefix in Magit branch?
The transient prefix command magit-branch is used to create and checkout branches, and to make changes to existing branches. It is not used to fetch, pull, merge, rebase, or push branches, i.e. this command deals with branches themselves, not with the commits reachable from them. Those features are available from separate transient command.
How to check out a revision in Magit?
Checkout a revision read in the minibuffer and defaulting to the branch or arbitrary revision at point. If the revision is a local branch then that becomes the current branch. If it is something else then HEAD becomes detached. Checkout fails if the working tree or the staging area contain changes.
How to see how many commits a local branch is ahead / behind another?
– C – C \\ U <– origin/foo Here C s are common commits, L s are local commits, and U is an upstream commit. If you’re on branch foo and you run git status you’ll see “ahead 3, behind 1”.