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 git status

says: "Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'" the origin/master is being tracked well after: 

git branch --set-upstream-to=remotes/origin/master

Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.

connection to the remote repo is OK. (proxy is set correctly) 

 git pull

sees the difference and pulls the required. Why would "Git status" not see the difference?

Igor
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    Git doesn't perform any sort of automatic check of remote repositories. You would need to run `git remote update` (or `git fetch`) to make your local repository aware of the remote changes. – larsks May 05 '20 at 13:48
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    Except for `git fetch` and `git push`, pretty much *everything* Git does just works locally. (`git remote update` is another way to spell `git fetch`, mostly, and `git pull` actually runs `git fetch` first, so those are covered under `git fetch`. `git ls-remote` and a few other `git remote` commands will contact another Git, but those aren't things most people do most of the time.) – torek May 05 '20 at 15:45
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    to summarise - the assumption that `--set-upstream-to` would equip `git status` with the ability to see the updates done on the remote repository is false. – Igor May 05 '20 at 16:24
  • https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit-status%5D+branch+is+up+to+date – phd May 05 '20 at 16:32

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