Re: Qn about git pull and git fetch
On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Eric Raible wrote:
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> On 11:59 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
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>
>> Your branches should be set to track automatically but if they didn't for
>> some reason and are using v1.7.0 or newer, you can:
>>
>> $ git branch --set-upstream master origin/next
>> Branch master set up to track remote branch next from origin.
>> $ git pull
>>
>> If you're using git prior to v1.7.0, you can instead:
>>
>> $ git config branch.master.remote origin
>> $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
>> $ git pull
>
> Seems to me that to be equivalent, the first should be:
>
> git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
>
> or the second should be:
>
> git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/next
>
> Eh?
Oops. I had forgotten to change the first one after some experimenting on the git.git repo. I had meant
$ git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
Far more repos have a master branch than a next one.
~~ Brian
Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>