Below: without knowing what the 123 commits are, I'm *certain* that none of them should be pushed.
In simple terms: I want my local copy of main to be no different from what's remote; for git-status(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-status> to not report that something's to be pushed. % date ; gh repo sync grahamperrin/freebsd-src Mon 12 Jun 2023 02:21:09 BST ✓ Synced the "grahamperrin:main" branch from "freebsd:main" % git -C /usr/src pull --ff-only freebsd main >From https://git.freebsd.org/src * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD Already up to date. % git -C /usr/src status On branch main Your branch is ahead of 'origin/main' by 123 commits. (use "git push" to publish your local commits) It took 2.09 seconds to enumerate untracked files. See 'git help status' for information on how to improve this. nothing to commit, working tree clean % git -C /usr/src config --list | sort branch.bug-261349.merge=refs/heads/bug-261349 branch.bug-261349.remote=origin branch.main.merge=refs/heads/main branch.main.remote=origin branch.patch-4.merge=refs/heads/patch-4 branch.patch-4.remote=origin branch.pkg-stage.merge=refs/heads/pkg-stage branch.pkg-stage.remote=origin branch.prefer-ee.merge=refs/heads/prefer-ee branch.prefer-ee.remote=origin branch.releng/13.1.merge=refs/heads/releng/13.1 branch.releng/13.1.remote=origin branch.releng/13.2.merge=refs/heads/releng/13.2 branch.releng/13.2.remote=origin branch.stable/12.merge=refs/heads/stable/12 branch.stable/12.remote=origin branch.stable/13.merge=refs/heads/stable/13 branch.stable/13.remote=origin core.bare=false core.filemode=true core.logallrefupdates=true core.repositoryformatversion=0 remote.freebsd.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/freebsd/* remote.freebsd.fetch=+refs/notes/*:refs/notes/* remote.freebsd.pushurl=g...@repo.freebsd.org:src.git remote.freebsd.url=https://git.freebsd.org/src.git remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* remote.origin.gh-resolved=base remote.origin.url=https://github.com/grahamperrin/freebsd-src.git remote.upstream.fetch=+refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/upstream/main remote.upstream.url=https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src.git safe.directory= safe.directory= safe.directory=/usr/doc user.email=grahamper...@freebsd.org user.name=Graham Perrin % -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/142f1cd1-d183-4e78-a23a-ed6f43d8b6bbn%40googlegroups.com.
