Question

When I merged a topic branch into master I received this message. I also have a remote at bitbucket named origin and heroku is named dev (originally origin, but renamed).

Should I also have something saying how many commits behind origin/bitbucket is? Is this because the bitbucket (now origin) was not cloned? I suspect it has something to do with tracking branches but i’m not entirely sure what that means.

 mistakes|tags-2col ⇒ co master
 Switched to branch 'master'
 mistakes|master ⇒ gmerge tags-2col 
 Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
  app.rb                 |    2 ++
  views/new/all_tags.erb |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 mistakes|master ⇒ gs
 # On branch master
 # Your branch is ahead of 'dev/master' by 2 commits.
 #
 nothing to commit (working directory clean)


 mistakes|master ⇒ git remote
 dev
 origin

Answer 1

You should only see a message regarding master compared to its upstream branch.

If master is tracking ‘dev/master‘, then you know how it stands compared to that remote branch.
See “Git: which is the default configured remote for branch?“.

You could setup a remote with multiple urls, but it doesn’t seem safe:
See “Git status in regards to multiple remote repositories“.