Re: 1.5.0.rc1.gb60d: fetch in another branch works strangely

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 13, 2007, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20070113211428.GA17749@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200701132106.l0DL6BPH008314@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:

> I created a new branch in the kernel to carry a not yet official patch, to
> keep this up to date I do:
> 
>    $ git fetch git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

That's only writing into FETCH_HEAD whatever branch is marked as HEAD in Linus' repository. No local refs are being updated.

>    $ git pull . origin

So this won't merge in the changes fetched above.

Why not setup that URL as a remote (git remote add linus ....) Then you can do:

  $ git fetch linus
  $ git merge linus/master

or

  $ git fetch linus
  $ git pull . linus/master

or

  $ git pull linus master

-- 
Shawn.