Dealing with Git: Your branch is behind ‘origin/master’ by xx commits



If you’re new to Git you may be working on a branch and realize that you’ve fallen out of synch with the master. In the case of Subversion you can normally do “svn up” and be good to go. In the case git you’ll normally do a “git fetch” and then a “git status” shows the following:

Your branch is behind ‘origin/master’ by 12 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.

To sync your branch with the master you can issue the following command:

git merge master

and you should now have all the latest changes from master.