From: Tom Lambda <tom.lambda@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:28:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull merges current branch even when <dst> is specified
Message-ID: <1245936518805-3155010.post@n2.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0906251142550.5365@intel-tinevez-2-302>


Thank you for the explanation.

So specifying :<dst> in git-pull does not seem that useful now to me, since
one has to checkout the <dst> branch anyway to keep other branches
unaltered.

Thanks again,
Tom


Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 
> To explain why this is so: Merging is an operation that requires a working 
> directory, as merge conflicts can happen.  That is why merging is only 
> possible locally, and only into the current branch.
> 
> 

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