Re: [boost] [poly_collection] Needs a 'develop' branch

Subject: Re: [boost] [poly_collection] Needs a 'develop' branch
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-02 00:28:31

On 2/11/2017 11:25, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 11/1/2017 6:09 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
>> By default you only see branches that you have checked out or copied 
>> locally.  You need to look under remotes/origin to see remote 
>> branches, and they are not updated until you do a Fetch/Pull.
> 
> So between one fetch/pull and another fetch/pull TortoiseGit will not 
> show a new remote branch anywhere ? OK, thanks for the information. I 
> did not know what it took for TortoiseGit to update its information for 
> a remote repository.

Yes.  Essentially, fetch and push are the only operations that contact 
the remote server.  (Although pull and submodule update can also trigger 
a fetch internally.)

Everything else happens entirely locally.  Your remote/* branches are 
just your cached copies of where they pointed the last time you fetched, 
and may be out of date between fetches.

Similarly, your non-remote branches are left wherever you last left 
them, and don't follow the remote branches automatically unless you 
explicitly ask them to (by having that branch checked out and doing a 
pull -r / Fetch&Rebase, or by re-creating the branch at the new commit).