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Re: Git branching & pulling

From
Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date
May 19, 2007, 06:22 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I personally never understood why people would just want to say
> "git pull" without saying anything else, but what described in
> the DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section is how it works.
>

I do that all the time, e.g. when I'm syncing the satellite repo on my laptop with the mothership repo in my account on my company's server. The satellite only ever talks to the mothership and I am always interested in pulling down all the changes I've committed to the mothership during the day. So there's really no need to specify anything; I always want to keep the two fully in sync, and there's never any question about where I'm pulling from.

I do a plain "git pull" in my clone of git.git too. I want all the latest updates and I'm only ever fetching them from the official git repo.

I can certainly imagine that if I were an integrator in charge of a master repo, I'd always want to explicitly pull from particular places.

-Steve
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Message 5 of 12 in “Git branching & pulling”
  1. Wink SavilleMay 19, 2007
  2. J. Bruce FieldsMay 19, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2007
  5. Steven GrimmMay 19, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2007
  7. Wink SavilleMay 19, 2007
  8. Josef WeidendorferMay 20, 2007
  9. Wink SavilleMay 23, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2007
  11. Document branch.autosetupmerge.Paolo Bonzini, May 23, 2007
  12. Josef WeidendorferMay 23, 2007

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