From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:29:15 GMT
Subject: Re: no --dry-run to git-pull ?
Message-ID: <20080704152915.GD4729@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <912ec82a0807040826v64afcc55i646d9c73b6fa8cd0@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 06:26:02PM +0300, Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) Replace origin and master with your remote and branch.
> >
> > 2) If this sounds cryptic for you, then it might be an important info
> > that by default a pull is a fetch + a merge.
> 
> What puzzles me is the origin keyword. Is it set only if I initially
> cloned a repo ?
> Because in my case, I have just rsync'ed a repo to another station, so
> I fear it will have no meaning in my case.

Heh. git remote add -f origin <url>, then you'll have it. And yes, you
have it if you cloned the repo, of course rsync won't add it. ;-)