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Anthony
Anthony

Reputation: 35958

Commits not being pushed to origin

I changed some files locally, added them, and committed them. When I try to push this branch to origin so that I can open a merge request, it seems that it isn't pushing any changes since the Total is 0

~/work/pr $ git commit -m "something"
[master e9bd370] something
 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arrows.png
 create mode 100644 foo.html
~/work/pr $ git push origin newbranch
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:user/my-repo.git
 * [new branch]      newbranch -> newbranch

The above lets me open a new merge request on GitLab webpage, however, says "nothing to merge". Which is because the Total 0 in the above terminal output.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 61

Answers (2)

starlocke
starlocke

Reputation: 3661

That looks totally normal. Your "newbranch" clearly has nothing new to add to the conversation.

I assume you were here:

git checkout master        # whatever the current branch is, assuming master

You probably meant to do, starting from above:

git commit -m "Something"
git branch -f newbranch    # re-position the new branch
git push origin newbranch

That's not the best practice, though. You should have done:

git checkout newbranch
# get the "newbranch" updated with the latest available "good stuff"
git merge master
# work on something and commit
git commit -m "Something"
git status
# "git graph" here would be very useful to look at (see extra hint, below)
git push origin newbranch

PS. Extra tip - Use a handy alias git graph to visualize your branches while working, basically a super-powered git log / git status (more like log, less like status). https://sites.google.com/site/sudokillall9/articles/gitgraphvariants

Upvotes: 1

ddavison
ddavison

Reputation: 29032

According to your commit result, it looks like you were on master when you made the commit.

Since you are committing it to master, instead of newbranch, nothing in newbranch was changed.

You need to checkout the newbranch branch before committing / pushing if you want to update that one.

Upvotes: 1

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