RE: How to update a cloned git repository

> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:06 PM
> To: Matthieu Moy
> Cc: Joachim Schmitz; git
> Subject: Re: How to update a cloned git repository
> 
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> > [ Re-adding git@vger in Cc, I guess it was meant to be so ]
> >
> > "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:
> >
> >>> Then, work on the tip of the topic branch you depend on instead of pu.
> >>> These are more stable, as they will be rewritten only if this particular
> >>> topic branch changes.
> >>
> >> These are not available from git hub. Or are they? How?
> >
> > I think they exist in some of the repos junio pushes to, but I don't
> > remember how/which one.
> >
> > Anyway, you can easily get it from the commit that merges the branch
> > (it's the-merge-commit^1).
> 
> I think it is the-merge-commit^2; contrib/git-resurrect.sh might be
> of interest, too.