为什么“git status”不显示远程分支已更改？

Question

I have created a branch fea-test and pushed to the remote repository. Then, I added some files in the same remote branch fea-test , but when I do git status , it says

Your branch is up to date with 'origin/fea-test'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

According to me, it should display something like

Your branch is behind  with 'origin/fea-test'.
    
    use git pull to get the changes 

because this is how it happens in GitLab (and now I'm using GitHub). What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

To be clear, check that these the steps you did:

• Create a branch on local machine
• Push to remote (GitHub)
• On GitHub, you added a new file via Create new file button
• You called git status on local machine and expected the newly created files / commits to be listed.

If I'm right, then you have to git fetch the changes from GitHub (so Your branch is behind of 'origin/fea-test' by XY commits will be shown in status) or use git pull to fetch + merge those (so your local branch will be updated).

Be sure that you know Git!