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Patch (apply) vs. Pull

From
DTDarrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com>
Date
Jun 20, 2005, 16:19 UTC
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<1119284365.3926.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>

In trying to understand git I've adopted a mental model where everybody duplicates locally the remote history in which they are interested. These histories have various points in common, allowing for intelligent merging. That makes perfect sense to me, until I look at the list archives filled with patches.

How exactly are these patches being generated? Is there a right-way(tm) which causes the recipient's a later pullers' histories to be intelligently handled in the future?

TIA.

-- Darrin

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  29. 0/3 Rebasing for "individual developer" usageJunio C Hamano, Jun 23, 2005
  30. 1/3 git-commit-script: get commit message from an existing one.Junio C Hamano, Jun 23, 2005
  31. 2/3 git-cherry: find commits not merged upstream.Junio C Hamano, Jun 23, 2005
  32. 3/3 git-rebase-script: rebase local commits to new upstream head.Junio C Hamano, Jun 23, 2005
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