Re: git pull/merge master on other branch

> Johan Herland wrote, at 5/9/2008 3:24 PM:
> > On Friday 09 May 2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> If I am on a branch (reguarly rebased), I don't want to switch to
> >> master branch, but merge origin into master.
> >> If I switch to master and pull and switch to branch, I have to
> >> rebuild almost of sources.
> >>
> >> How I can pull origin into master without switching to master
> >> branch?
> >
> > You can't; merging requires use of the working tree (to resolve
> > conflicts).
> >
> > However, what you can do is make a local clone of your project
> > (cheap, because it just hardlinks files from the original repo),
> > and checkout the master branch in the clone, perform the merge
> > (after having set up the same origin and retrieved its contents),
> > and then fetch (or push) the result back into the original repo
> > (remember: "fetch" instead of "pull", since the latter will
> > initiate a merge with your current branch).
>
> I tested and it seems work fine.
>
> $ mkdir repo; cd repo; git init; echo 'aaa' > a; git add .; git ci -m
> 'aaa'; cd ..
> $ git clone repo t; cd t; git co -b test; cd ..
> $ cd repo; echo 'bbb' >> a; git ci -m 'bbb' a; cd ..
> $ git clone t t2; cd t2; git remote add central ../repo; git pull
> central master; git push origin; cd ..
> $ cd t; git log; git log master; git rebase master
>
> Did I do correctly?