Re: Question about "git pull --rebase"

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2009, 12:17 UTC
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0911160417w6b9cc943h5e87d4e22d0dea2b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AFF3D4D.7000308@gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Johan 't Hart <johanthart@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This does not update any remote tracking branches, but it will rebase your
> foo branch on the remote master branch (which is what you want)
> It could also be done with:
>
> git pull --rebase origin master:origin/master
>
> This will also update your remote tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/master
> to match the master branch on the remote repo. Your foo branch will then be
> rebased onto it.

BTW, this seems to be not exact.

$ git pull --rebase origin master:origin/master

fetches the 'master' branch on the remote repo, then creates a new branch 'origin/master', which is updated with the fetched branch.

To update the remote tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/master, I need to issue:

$ git pull --rebase origin master:remotes/origin/master

BTW2, it looks like if the <dst> local ref doesn't exist the it will be created. This something that appears very lately in the man page (actually I can see the information only in the last example). This could be part of the <refspec> defintion.

Thanks

-- 
Francis