Re: Question regarding: git pull --no-commit origin

Geoff Russell [off-list ref] wrote:

I do: git pull --no-commit origin

Receive messages ending in:

       ...
      Updating 6a29cdd..b7ba33d
      Fast forward
      interface/testfile |    1 +
      1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
      create mode 100644 interface/testfile

...

However when I do: git commit -a

I'm told: nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Am I misunderstanding something?

The pull was strictly a fast-forward.  No merge commit was necessary
to record the merge, so we didn't actually honor the --no-commit
argument.

In other words, your current branch did not contain any commits
that were not in the origin branch you were pulling from.  So
a real merge wasn't required here.

-- 
Shawn.