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Re: git pull w/o checkout?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 22, 2006, 13:17 UTC
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<20060622131730.GB7168@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<6F96D77C-FE27-4B74-ADBF-9964B5FD72DF@kernel.crashing.org>
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:13:54AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> that's what I want, however fetch isn't updating any refs/ as far as  
> I can tell.

It won't update the ref for the branch you're on; it will update the head for the remotes (try running git-show-branch before and after your fetch, and you should see an update on 'origin' or whatever remote you're fetching).

-Peff
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