How can I find the location of origin master in git and how do I change it

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I m a Git newbie   I recently moved a Rails project from Subversion to Git   I followed the tutorial here  http   www simplisticcomplexity com 2008 03 05 cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository   I am also using unfuddle com to store my code   I make changes on my Mac laptop on the train to from work and then push them to unfuddle when I have a network connection using the following command   git push unfuddle master   I use Capistrano for deployments and pull code from the unfuddle repository using the master branch   Lately I ve noticed the following message when I run  git status  on my laptop     On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 11 commits    nothing to commit  working directory clean    And I m confused as to why   I thought my laptop was the origin    but don t know if either the fact that I originally pulled from Subversion or push to Unfuddle is what s causing the message to show up   How can I    Find out where Git thinks  origin master  is  If it s somewhere else  how do I turn my laptop into the  origin master   Get this message to go away  It makes me think Git is unhappy about something    My mac is running Git version 1 6 0 1     When I run git remote show origin as suggested by dbr  I get the following     Projects GeekFor geekfor 10 47 AM   git remote show origin fatal    Users brian Projects GeekFor gf  git   unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   When I run git remote -v as suggested by Aristotle Pagaltzis  I get the following     Projects GeekFor geekfor 10 33 AM   git remote -v origin   Users brian Projects GeekFor gf  git unfuddle    git spilth unfuddle com spilth geekfor git   Now  interestingly  I m working on my project in the geekfor directory but it says my origin is my local machine in the gf directory   I believe gf was the temporary directory I used when converting my project from Subversion to Git and probably where I pushed to unfuddle from   Then I believe I checked out a fresh copy from unfuddle to the geekfor directory   So it looks like I should follow dbr s advice and do   git remote rm origin git remote add origin git spilth unfuddle com spilth geekfor git

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I came to this question looking for an explanation about what the message "your branch is ahead by..." means, in the general scheme of git. There was no answer to that here, but since this question currently shows up at the top of Google when you search for the phrase "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master'", and I have since figured out what the message really means, I thought I'd post the info here.

So, being a git newbie, I can see that the answer I needed was a distinctly newbie answer. Specifically, what the "your branch is ahead by..." phrase means is that there are files you've added and committed to your local repository, but have never pushed to the origin. The intent of this message is further obfuscated by the fact that "git diff", at least for me, showed no differences. It wasn't until I ran "git diff origin/master" that I was told that there were differences between my local repository, and the remote master.

So, to be clear:

"your branch is ahead by..." => You need to push to the remote master. Run "git diff origin/master" to see what the differences are between your local repository and the remote master repository.

Hope this helps other newbies.

(Also, I recognize that there are configuration subtleties that may partially invalidate this solution, such as the fact that the master may not actually be "remote", and that "origin" is a reconfigurable name used by convention, etc. But newbies do not care about that sort of thing. We want simple, straightforward answers. We can read about the subtleties later, once we've solved the pressing problem.)

Earl

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I am a git newbie as well  I had the same problem with  your branch is ahead of origin master by N commits  messages  Doing the suggested  git diff origin master  did show some diffs that I did not care to keep  So      Since my git clone was for hosting  and I wanted an exact copy of the master repo  and did not care to keep any local changes  I decided to save off my entire repo  and create a new one    on the hosting machine   mv myrepo myrepo git clone USER MASTER HOST  REPO DIR myrepo   For expediency  I used to make changes to the clone on my hosting machine  No more  I will make those changes to the master  git commit there  and do a git pull  Hopefully  this should keep my git clone on the hosting machine in complete sync    Nara

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I had a problem that was similar to this where my working directory was ahead of origin by X commits but the git pull was resulting in Everything up-to-date  I did manage to fix it by following this advice  I m posting this here in case it helps someone else with a similar problem   The basic fix is as follows     git push  remote   localbranch   remotebranch    Where the words in brackets should be replaced by your remote name  your local branch name and your remote branch name  e g     git push origin master master

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It is possible to reset to a specific commit before your own commits take place     git status   On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 2 commits    nothing to commit  working directory clean    Use git log to find what commit was the commit you had before the local changes took place     git log commit 3368e1c5b8a47135a34169c885e8dd5ba01af5bb     commit baf8d5e7da9e41fcd37d63ae9483ee0b10bfac8e       Take note of the local commits and reset directly to the previous commit   git reset --hard baf8d5e7da9e41fcd37d63ae9483ee0b10bfac8e

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I had a problem that was similar to this where my working directory was ahead of origin by X commits but the git pull was resulting in Everything up-to-date  I did manage to fix it by following this advice  I m posting this here in case it helps someone else with a similar problem   The basic fix is as follows     git push  remote   localbranch   remotebranch    Where the words in brackets should be replaced by your remote name  your local branch name and your remote branch name  e g     git push origin master master

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Solution      git push origin     this solved it for me   What it did  it synchronized my master  on laptop  with  origin  that s on the remote server

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I thought my laptop was the origin      That   s kind of nonsensical  origin refers to the default remote repository     the one you usually fetch pull other people   s changes from      How can I     git remote -v will show you what origin is  origin master is your    bookmark    for the last known state of the master branch of the origin repository  and your own master is a tracking branch for origin master  This is all as it should be  You don   t  At least it makes no sense for a repository to be the default remote repository for itself  It isn   t  It   s merely telling you that you have made so-and-so many commits locally which aren   t in the remote repository  according to the last known state of that repository

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Solution      git push origin     this solved it for me   What it did  it synchronized my master  on laptop  with  origin  that s on the remote server

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sometimes there s a difference between the local cached version of origin master  origin master  and the true origin master   If you run git remote update this will resynch origin master with origin master  see the accepted answer to this question  Differences between git pull origin master  amp  git pull origin master

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I am a git newbie as well  I had the same problem with  your branch is ahead of origin master by N commits  messages  Doing the suggested  git diff origin master  did show some diffs that I did not care to keep  So      Since my git clone was for hosting  and I wanted an exact copy of the master repo  and did not care to keep any local changes  I decided to save off my entire repo  and create a new one    on the hosting machine   mv myrepo myrepo git clone USER MASTER HOST  REPO DIR myrepo   For expediency  I used to make changes to the clone on my hosting machine  No more  I will make those changes to the master  git commit there  and do a git pull  Hopefully  this should keep my git clone on the hosting machine in complete sync    Nara

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It is possible to reset to a specific commit before your own commits take place     git status   On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 2 commits    nothing to commit  working directory clean    Use git log to find what commit was the commit you had before the local changes took place     git log commit 3368e1c5b8a47135a34169c885e8dd5ba01af5bb     commit baf8d5e7da9e41fcd37d63ae9483ee0b10bfac8e       Take note of the local commits and reset directly to the previous commit   git reset --hard baf8d5e7da9e41fcd37d63ae9483ee0b10bfac8e

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1  Find out where Git thinks  origin master  is using git-remote   git remote show origin     which will return something like      remote origin   URL  me remote example com   something git   Remote branch merged with  git pull  while on branch master     master   Tracked remote branch     master   A remote is basically a link to a remote repository  When you do    git remote add unfuddle me unfuddle com myrepo git git push unfuddle     git will push changes to that address you added  It s like a bookmark  for remote repositories   When you run git status  it checks if the remote is missing commits  compared to your local repository   and if so  by how many commits  If you push all your changes to  origin   both will be in sync  so you wont get that message      2  If it s somewhere else  how do I turn my laptop into the  origin master     There is no point in doing this  Say  origin  is renamed to  laptop  - you never want to do git push laptop from your laptop   If you want to remove the origin remote  you do    git remote rm origin   This wont delete anything  in terms of file-content revisions-history   This will stop the  your branch is ahead by    message  as it will no longer compare your repository with the remote  because it s gone    One thing to remember is that there is nothing special about origin  it s just a default name git uses   Git does use origin by default when you do things like git push or git pull  So  if you have a remote you use a lot  Unfuddle  in your case   I would recommend adding unfuddle as  origin    git remote rm origin git remote add origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   or do the above in one command using set-url   git remote set-url origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   Then you can simply do git push or git pull to update  instead of git push unfuddle master

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sometimes there s a difference between the local cached version of origin master  origin master  and the true origin master   If you run git remote update this will resynch origin master with origin master  see the accepted answer to this question  Differences between git pull origin master  amp  git pull origin master

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I thought my laptop was the origin      That   s kind of nonsensical  origin refers to the default remote repository     the one you usually fetch pull other people   s changes from      How can I     git remote -v will show you what origin is  origin master is your    bookmark    for the last known state of the master branch of the origin repository  and your own master is a tracking branch for origin master  This is all as it should be  You don   t  At least it makes no sense for a repository to be the default remote repository for itself  It isn   t  It   s merely telling you that you have made so-and-so many commits locally which aren   t in the remote repository  according to the last known state of that repository

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I am struggling with this problem and none of the previous answers tackle the question as I see it  I have stripped the problem back down to its basics to see if I can make my problem clear   I create a new repository  rep1   put one file in it and commit it   mkdir rep1 cd rep1 git init echo  Line1   gt  README git add README git commit -m  Commit 1    I create a clone of rep1 and call it rep2  I look inside rep2 and see the file is correct   cd   git clone   rep1 rep2 cat   rep2 README   In rep1 I make a single change to the file and commit it  Then in rep1 I create a remote to point to rep2 and push the changes   cd   rep1  lt change file and commit gt  git remote add rep2   rep2 git push rep2 master   Now when I go into rep2 and do a  git status  I get told I am ahead of origin     On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 1 commit      Changes to be committed       use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage        modified    README     README in rep2 is as it was originally  before the second commit  The only modifications I have done are to rep1 and all I wanted to do was push them out to rep2  What is it I am not grasping

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I was wondering the same thing about my repo   In my case I had an old remote that I wasn t pushing to anymore so I needed to remove it   Get list of remotes   git remote   Remove the one that you don t need  git remote rm  insert remote to remove

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1  Find out where Git thinks  origin master  is using git-remote   git remote show origin     which will return something like      remote origin   URL  me remote example com   something git   Remote branch merged with  git pull  while on branch master     master   Tracked remote branch     master   A remote is basically a link to a remote repository  When you do    git remote add unfuddle me unfuddle com myrepo git git push unfuddle     git will push changes to that address you added  It s like a bookmark  for remote repositories   When you run git status  it checks if the remote is missing commits  compared to your local repository   and if so  by how many commits  If you push all your changes to  origin   both will be in sync  so you wont get that message      2  If it s somewhere else  how do I turn my laptop into the  origin master     There is no point in doing this  Say  origin  is renamed to  laptop  - you never want to do git push laptop from your laptop   If you want to remove the origin remote  you do    git remote rm origin   This wont delete anything  in terms of file-content revisions-history   This will stop the  your branch is ahead by    message  as it will no longer compare your repository with the remote  because it s gone    One thing to remember is that there is nothing special about origin  it s just a default name git uses   Git does use origin by default when you do things like git push or git pull  So  if you have a remote you use a lot  Unfuddle  in your case   I would recommend adding unfuddle as  origin    git remote rm origin git remote add origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   or do the above in one command using set-url   git remote set-url origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   Then you can simply do git push or git pull to update  instead of git push unfuddle master

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I had this problem recently and I figured it was because I had deleted some files that I did not need anymore  The problem is that git does not know that the files have been deleted and it sees that the server still has it   server   origin   So I ran   git rm   git ls-files --deleted    And then ran a commit and push    That solved the issue

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I had this problem recently and I figured it was because I had deleted some files that I did not need anymore  The problem is that git does not know that the files have been deleted and it sees that the server still has it   server   origin   So I ran   git rm   git ls-files --deleted    And then ran a commit and push    That solved the issue

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It s waiting for you to  push   Try     git push

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I had the problem  Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by nn commits   when i pushed to a remote repository with   git push ssh   git xxx repositryhosting com yyy zzz git   When i found that my remote adress was in the file  git FETCH HEAD and used   git push   the problem disappeared

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I thought my laptop was the origin      That   s kind of nonsensical  origin refers to the default remote repository     the one you usually fetch pull other people   s changes from      How can I     git remote -v will show you what origin is  origin master is your    bookmark    for the last known state of the master branch of the origin repository  and your own master is a tracking branch for origin master  This is all as it should be  You don   t  At least it makes no sense for a repository to be the default remote repository for itself  It isn   t  It   s merely telling you that you have made so-and-so many commits locally which aren   t in the remote repository  according to the last known state of that repository

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I was wondering the same thing about my repo   In my case I had an old remote that I wasn t pushing to anymore so I needed to remove it   Get list of remotes   git remote   Remove the one that you don t need  git remote rm  insert remote to remove

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1  Find out where Git thinks  origin master  is using git-remote   git remote show origin     which will return something like      remote origin   URL  me remote example com   something git   Remote branch merged with  git pull  while on branch master     master   Tracked remote branch     master   A remote is basically a link to a remote repository  When you do    git remote add unfuddle me unfuddle com myrepo git git push unfuddle     git will push changes to that address you added  It s like a bookmark  for remote repositories   When you run git status  it checks if the remote is missing commits  compared to your local repository   and if so  by how many commits  If you push all your changes to  origin   both will be in sync  so you wont get that message      2  If it s somewhere else  how do I turn my laptop into the  origin master     There is no point in doing this  Say  origin  is renamed to  laptop  - you never want to do git push laptop from your laptop   If you want to remove the origin remote  you do    git remote rm origin   This wont delete anything  in terms of file-content revisions-history   This will stop the  your branch is ahead by    message  as it will no longer compare your repository with the remote  because it s gone    One thing to remember is that there is nothing special about origin  it s just a default name git uses   Git does use origin by default when you do things like git push or git pull  So  if you have a remote you use a lot  Unfuddle  in your case   I would recommend adding unfuddle as  origin    git remote rm origin git remote add origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   or do the above in one command using set-url   git remote set-url origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   Then you can simply do git push or git pull to update  instead of git push unfuddle master

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I came to this question looking for an explanation about what the message "your branch is ahead by..." means, in the general scheme of git. There was no answer to that here, but since this question currently shows up at the top of Google when you search for the phrase "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master'", and I have since figured out what the message really means, I thought I'd post the info here.

So, being a git newbie, I can see that the answer I needed was a distinctly newbie answer. Specifically, what the "your branch is ahead by..." phrase means is that there are files you've added and committed to your local repository, but have never pushed to the origin. The intent of this message is further obfuscated by the fact that "git diff", at least for me, showed no differences. It wasn't until I ran "git diff origin/master" that I was told that there were differences between my local repository, and the remote master.

So, to be clear:

"your branch is ahead by..." => You need to push to the remote master. Run "git diff origin/master" to see what the differences are between your local repository and the remote master repository.

Hope this helps other newbies.

(Also, I recognize that there are configuration subtleties that may partially invalidate this solution, such as the fact that the master may not actually be "remote", and that "origin" is a reconfigurable name used by convention, etc. But newbies do not care about that sort of thing. We want simple, straightforward answers. We can read about the subtleties later, once we've solved the pressing problem.)

Earl

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It s waiting for you to  push   Try     git push

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I am struggling with this problem and none of the previous answers tackle the question as I see it  I have stripped the problem back down to its basics to see if I can make my problem clear   I create a new repository  rep1   put one file in it and commit it   mkdir rep1 cd rep1 git init echo  Line1   gt  README git add README git commit -m  Commit 1    I create a clone of rep1 and call it rep2  I look inside rep2 and see the file is correct   cd   git clone   rep1 rep2 cat   rep2 README   In rep1 I make a single change to the file and commit it  Then in rep1 I create a remote to point to rep2 and push the changes   cd   rep1  lt change file and commit gt  git remote add rep2   rep2 git push rep2 master   Now when I go into rep2 and do a  git status  I get told I am ahead of origin     On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 1 commit      Changes to be committed       use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage        modified    README     README in rep2 is as it was originally  before the second commit  The only modifications I have done are to rep1 and all I wanted to do was push them out to rep2  What is it I am not grasping

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I thought my laptop was the origin      That   s kind of nonsensical  origin refers to the default remote repository     the one you usually fetch pull other people   s changes from      How can I     git remote -v will show you what origin is  origin master is your    bookmark    for the last known state of the master branch of the origin repository  and your own master is a tracking branch for origin master  This is all as it should be  You don   t  At least it makes no sense for a repository to be the default remote repository for itself  It isn   t  It   s merely telling you that you have made so-and-so many commits locally which aren   t in the remote repository  according to the last known state of that repository

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1  Find out where Git thinks  origin master  is using git-remote   git remote show origin     which will return something like      remote origin   URL  me remote example com   something git   Remote branch merged with  git pull  while on branch master     master   Tracked remote branch     master   A remote is basically a link to a remote repository  When you do    git remote add unfuddle me unfuddle com myrepo git git push unfuddle     git will push changes to that address you added  It s like a bookmark  for remote repositories   When you run git status  it checks if the remote is missing commits  compared to your local repository   and if so  by how many commits  If you push all your changes to  origin   both will be in sync  so you wont get that message      2  If it s somewhere else  how do I turn my laptop into the  origin master     There is no point in doing this  Say  origin  is renamed to  laptop  - you never want to do git push laptop from your laptop   If you want to remove the origin remote  you do    git remote rm origin   This wont delete anything  in terms of file-content revisions-history   This will stop the  your branch is ahead by    message  as it will no longer compare your repository with the remote  because it s gone    One thing to remember is that there is nothing special about origin  it s just a default name git uses   Git does use origin by default when you do things like git push or git pull  So  if you have a remote you use a lot  Unfuddle  in your case   I would recommend adding unfuddle as  origin    git remote rm origin git remote add origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   or do the above in one command using set-url   git remote set-url origin git subdomain unfuddle com subdomain abbreviation git   Then you can simply do git push or git pull to update  instead of git push unfuddle master

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I had the problem  Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by nn commits   when i pushed to a remote repository with   git push ssh   git xxx repositryhosting com yyy zzz git   When i found that my remote adress was in the file  git FETCH HEAD and used   git push   the problem disappeared

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