Re: Apply git bundle to source tree?

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2020, 14:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20200918140236.GA1602321@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <CAHpGcMJqmUmCR_u3fxSVppzwBo8_6RJG5-WLrXAWXm+OQ6_3bA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:13:52PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there's a way to apply a particular head in a bundle
> to a source tree, for example:
>
>   $ git bundle create v5.9-rc1.bundle v5.8..v5.9-rc1
>   $ cd linux-5.8
>   $ git bundle APPLY ../5.9-rc1.bundle v5.9-rc1

Sort of. You can specify a refspec when fetching from the bundle to fetch only the objects you care about, like:

  cd linux-5.8
  git fetch /path/to/bundle 'refs/tags/v5.9-rc1:refs/tags/v5.9-rc1'

(or if you prefer, "git fetch /path/to/bundle 'tag v5.9-rc1'"). Then once you have the objects locally, you can merge it into your HEAD. You can do all of that in one step with:

  git pull /path/to/bundle 'refs/tags/v5.9-rc1'

There's no such thing as 'git bundle apply' though, although I suspect 'git pull' is what you wanted anyway.

Thanks, Taylor