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What does the Already up-to-date message actually mean? Quite often when I do pull I get this message although I'm positive something has changed, and in fact when I look at the source files something has changed.

Is there anyway to force git to always show me everything that changes in the working directory as a result of a merge/pull or whatever operation. I'm guessing this might relate to fast-forward operations: I want them to appear like a merge and show me the files which have been changed.

Example

DirA> git push Repo

DirB> git pull Repo
DirB> git add somefile.txt
DirB> git commit
DirB> git push Repo

DirA> git pull Repo
"Already up-to-date"

The message appears even though somefile.txt has indeed been updated in DirA. That is, DirA was not actually up-to-date and a change has actually been made.

edA-qa mort-ora-y
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  • `Already up-to-date` means that nothing has changed on the remote side, so the `pull` didn't do anything. If you tell specifically what exactly you are doing, somebody can explain why you are seeing what you are. – Jan Hudec Feb 13 '12 at 09:14

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If you have committed local changes, and yet have that message, that should mean that you are in a detached HEAD mode, which would explain why Git doesn't display any change.

See this answer in order to "reattach the HEAD", and then your git pull will work better.

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  • No, I'm not having this problem. That is, my `push` and `pull` are definitely updating the files, but nonetheless saying `already up-to-date`. – edA-qa mort-ora-y Feb 13 '12 at 10:28