Git already up to date unless I reset

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I have a cloned repo I use for the live site and I have it pull from a bare repo. For some reason every time I execute "git pull" I get the already up to date message. But it's not up to date and not updated. If I do a git reset --hard HEAD^ and then git pull again, the changes come in.

What's the problem here and how do I fix it so that git pull will pull and merge changes in without needing a hard reset?

Please provide more details, it sounds like you really are up to date. When you do `git reset --hard HEAD^ && git pull` does `HEAD` really change? What does `git rev-parse HEAD` show before and afterwards? — CB Bailey, Apr 23 '10 at 08:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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That would be the case if are working on a DETACHED HEAD (see this SO question for more)

gitk detached head

That happens when you checkout directly a SHA1 commit reference, for instance.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Apr 23 '10 at 10:33

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