Re: recent change in git.git/master broke my repos

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 25, 2007, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <4720FB4E.3030300@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710251344220.22100@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> 
>> On 2007-10-25 07:32:36 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> And when are we gonna get "fast forward only" for git-merge?
>> I'd like that too. For cases when I know I don't have to do a merge,
>> and want git to yell at me if I'm mistaken. For example, in a
>> repository that tracks an upstream so I can build the latest version,
>> but where I don't normally do any development.
> 
> Isn't that called a remote branch that gets updated with "git fetch' ?
> You can even trick Git into not using the refs/remotes/ namespace for 
> them if you wish.
>

You'd lose the ability to do "git diff origin/master" while disconnected though. It's quite valuable.

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