As illustrated by the commands below, a git clone has successfully been used as a git repository and has had changes pushed to it. But then, git status does not detect any difference between the updated clone and the original git repository -- why?
$ mkdir -p /var/tmp/git_master
$ cd /var/tmp/git_master
$ git clone https://the_repo.com/stuff.git
Cloning into 'stuff'...
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$ cd
$ mkdir fooey
$ cd fooey
$ git clone /var/tmp/git_master/stuff
Cloning into 'stuff'...
done.
$ cd stuff/
$ git branch test
$ git checkout test
Switched to branch 'test'
$ touch test.txt
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$ git commit -m"initial"
$ git push origin test
Counting objects: 6, done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 526 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 6 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
To /var/tmp/git_master/stuff
* [new branch] test -> test
$ pushd /var/tmp/git_master/stuff
$ git branch
* master
test
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
$
Why doesn't git status report that /var/tmp/git_master/stuff contains a local branch named test that is not in the remote repository https://the_repo.com/stuff.git?
Output from accepted answer git branch -avv
$ git branch -avv
* master 52a921c [origin/master] some message
test 39dbcbf some message
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/xyz b5edac5 some message
remotes/origin/master 52a921c some message
Leads to another question: how to push all changes in /var/tmp/git_master/stuff to the remote repository https://the_repo.com/stuff.git? (I trust this follow-up question need not be asked separately since it completes the issue being tackled by the original question.)
Resolution to follow-up question can be found here https://stackoverflow.com/a/6232535/1823664 -- git checkout test followed by git push -u. There is also this suggestion that a few have derided: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21232996/1823664
