From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:36:06 GMT
Subject: Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?
Message-ID: <20080822203606.GB1598@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30808221311w7c507abboecd0893def85a073@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008.08.22 22:11:42 +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> since tip/master is often rebased (as pu or linux-next) what I do is
> the following:
> git branch -D tip-latest
> git checkout -b tip-latest tip/master
> 
> but I guess lot of people would expect to "throw away" and "checkout
> again" with a single git command.

git reset --hard tip/master

or just don't create a local branch at all and do testing on a detached
HEAD, ie. just:
git checkout tip/master

That works after each fetch.

Björn