Use git remote update

[git-wiki.git] / pep-103.txt

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@@ -193,6 +193,14 @@ remote-tracking branches, creates a local branch ``v1``, configure it
 to track upstream remotes/origin/v1 branch and checks out ``v1`` into
 the working directory.
 
+Some commands, like ``git status``, report the difference between
+local and remote branches. Please remember they only do comparison
+with remote-tracking branches in your local repository, and the state
+of those remote-tracking branches can be outdated. To update
+remote-tracking branches you either fetch and merge (or rebase)
+commits from the remote repository or update remote-tracking branches
+without updating local branches.
+
 
 Updating local and remote-tracking branches
 -------------------------------------------
@@ -344,6 +352,12 @@ That changed in git 2.3, but see `the blog post
 for caveats; in 2.4 the push-to-deploy feature was `further improved
 <https://github.com/blog/1994-git-2-4-atomic-pushes-push-to-deploy-and-more#push-to-deploy-improvements>`_.
 
+To update remote-tracking branches without updating local branches run
+``git remote update [$REMOTE...]``. For example::
+
+    $ git remote update
+    $ git remote update origin
+
 
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