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Re: best way to fastforward all tracking branches after a fetch

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GNGelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2011, 20:27 UTC
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On 12/11/2011 09:14 PM, Stefan Haller wrote:
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> Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> What is the best way to fastforward all fastforwardable tracking
>> branches after a git fetch?
> 
> Here's a script that does this.  It isn't very well tested, I hope I
> didn't miss any edge cases. Use at your own risk.
> 
> (It doesn't fastforward the branch you're on, on the assumtion that if
> you said git fetch instead of git pull, you probably had a reason.)

Agreed. it might be reasonable to ignore the current branch if it wasn't pulled.

Thanks a lot for the script. I will play with it.
>
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Message 12 of 27 in “best way to fastforward all tracking branches after a fetch”
  1. Gelonida NDec 10, 2011
  2. Sitaram ChamartyDec 11, 2011
  3. Gelonida NDec 11, 2011
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2011
  5. Sitaram ChamartyDec 11, 2011
  6. Andreas SchwabDec 11, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2011
  8. Gelonida NDec 11, 2011
  9. Andreas SchwabDec 11, 2011
  10. Martin LanghoffDec 11, 2011
  11. Stefan HallerDec 11, 2011
  12. Gelonida NDec 11, 2011
  13. Martin LanghoffDec 11, 2011
  14. Hallvard B FurusethDec 11, 2011
  15. Stefan HallerDec 12, 2011
  16. Jeff KingDec 12, 2011
  17. Stefan HallerDec 12, 2011
  18. Hallvard Breien FurusethDec 13, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011
  21. Gelonida NDec 12, 2011
  22. Gelonida NDec 12, 2011
  23. Sitaram ChamartyDec 17, 2011
  24. Sitaram ChamartyDec 17, 2011
  25. Nazri RamliyDec 19, 2011
  26. Sitaram ChamartyJan 18, 2012
  27. Sitaram ChamartyJan 18, 2012

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