Re: Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 20, 2005, 20:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20050420200504.GB19112@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050420070157.GA12584@elte.hu>

Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:01:57AM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> told me that...

>  [...]
>  fatal: unable to execute 'gitmerge-file.sh'
>  fatal: merge program failed

Pure stupidity of mine, I forgot to add gitmerge-file.sh to the list of scripts which get installed.

> another thing: it's confusing that during 'git pull', the rsync output 
> is not visible. Especially during large rsyncs, it would be nice to see 
> some progress. So i usually use a raw rsync not 'git pull', due to this.

Fixed. For further reference, you can also set RSYNC_FLAGS and put whatever pleases you there.

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> yet another thing: what is the canonical 'pasky way' of simply nuking 
> the current files and checking out the latest tree (according to 
> .git/HEAD). Right now i'm using a script to:
> 
>   read-tree $(tree-id $(cat .git/HEAD))
>   checkout-cache -a
> 
> (i first do an 'rm -f *' in the working directory)
> 
> i guess there's an existing command for this already?

git cancel

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