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Re: Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 25, 2011, 08:59 UTC
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<20110425085913.GB28885@elie>
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm not sure what a good meaning for "git merge <repository>" would
>> be.
>
> It's equivalent to refs/remotes/<repository>/HEAD if that exists.
Ah, I should have checked gitrevisions(7).  Thank you.

Jonathan who wonders where his origin/HEAD symref came from and if "git remote set-head --auto origin" was ever automatic

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