Re: new to git

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Aug 27, 2007, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <46D33E9C.8000000@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vabsczp94.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 
>> git pull = git fetch + git merge. The notation you use above is obsoleted
>> and no longer works in git 1.5.3. Instead you'd have to replace
>>
>> 	git pull . foo
>>
>> with
>>
>> 	git merge foo
>>
>> which will most likely clear up some confusion.
> 
> Huh?  "git pull . foo" has always been the same as "git merge
> foo", I thought...  Have we broken anything?
>

Possibly. I noticed some weeks ago that "pull . branch" no longer worked and used merge instead. I shrugged it off as being of no moment, and can't recall if there were any real reasons for the merge to fail.

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>>>
>> Here I'm clueless, except that this matches old syntax which is no longer
>> valid.
> 
> Huh again about "no longer valid" part.
> 
> In any case, the former says "I am on foo branch, and I want to
> merge 'master' from _MY_ local repository".  The latter says "I
> want to update the local branch 'foo' with what is in my
> 'master' branch, both local".  They are totally different.
> 
> Please do _not_ spread backward incompatibility FUD.

My apologies. I'll have to see if I can find what caused my own confusion in the first place.

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