I’m more of a novice when it comes to advanced operations in git. I maintain my blog using the blogging framework Octopress. Though Octopress is not under any development since 2011, it serves my purpose well and so I haven’t thought of changing anything so far.
FYI, my blog is hosted on Github Pages.
Today, while working on a new post, git status showed the following message:
On branch source
Your branch is based on 'origin/master', but the upstream is gone.
(use "git branch --unset-upstream" to fixup)
The same message repeated for all the subsequent commands such as git add ., git commit -m 'message' and git push origin source.
- What does the message mean?
- Is something broken?
- If yes, what?
- Do I need to fix it?
If possible, please point me to a pdf/web article where I can read up on this and understand it for future.
More details:
bash-3.2$ git branch -a
* source
remotes/octopress/2.1
remotes/octopress/HEAD -> octopress/master
remotes/octopress/gh-pages
remotes/octopress/linklog
remotes/octopress/master
remotes/octopress/refactor_with_tests
remotes/octopress/rubygemcli
remotes/octopress/site
remotes/origin/source
Please let me know if more information is needed. Thanks.