Confused with git-push

I faced to a situation that puzzles me but I guess the answer is very simple, it is just I can't see it... Hopefully someone can help me

I have a git repo. git-status says that I have 4 commits queued:

]$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 4 commits.
#

nothing to commit (working directory clean)

So I do git-push (git push origin) and then it looks fine, i.e. then I have nothing to push. But when I pull (or fetch + merge) the repo in another directory, the changes don't show up.

Moreover, I can pull from the remote into the local directory (git pull origin) which results with:

 + a4ac30f...10164ca master     -> origin/master  (forced update)
Already up-to-date.

and after that I am again 4 commits ahead, i.e. in the same situation I've started. So I can repeat the two commands:

git push origin

which always results in:

]$ git push origin -v
Pushing to http://myserver.com/src.git/myrepo
Fetching remote heads...
  refs/
  refs/heads/
  refs/tags/
Everything up-to-date

and

git pull origin

whose result is always as quoted above infinite number of times and nothing happens, after the first one I am always "Everything up-to-date" and after the second one I am always "开发者_Python百科ahead of 'origin/master' by 4 commits"

In both local repositories Fetch URL and Push URL are the same; git remote show origin says:

  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    git-svn tracked
    master  tracked
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (fast-forwardable)

Best, Tim

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OK, I solved it! The problem was that some previous push didn't go correctly and the remote was screwed up. I logged into the remote server (which is WebDAV-based) and run chown -R wwwrun src.git. Then the very next push did the job

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It sounds like your master branch is not set up to track origin/master, and therefore git push is ignoring it entirely. Try git push origin master to tell it specifically which branch to push.