How can I find the location of origin/master in git, and how do I change it?

Question

I\'m a Git newbie. I recently moved a Rails project from Subversion to Git. I followed the tutorial here: http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-yo

Answer 1

I am a git newbie as well. I had the same problem with 'your branch is ahead of origin/master by N commits' messages. Doing the suggested 'git diff origin/master' did show some diffs that I did not care to keep. So ...

Since my git clone was for hosting, and I wanted an exact copy of the master repo, and did not care to keep any local changes, I decided to save off my entire repo, and create a new one:

(on the hosting machine)

mv myrepo myrepo
git clone USER@MASTER_HOST:/REPO_DIR myrepo

For expediency, I used to make changes to the clone on my hosting machine. No more. I will make those changes to the master, git commit there, and do a git pull. Hopefully, this should keep my git clone on the hosting machine in complete sync.

/Nara