Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?

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> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
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>> Well git fetch does nothing by itself.
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> Git fetch does exactly what it should do by itself.
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> If you think it does "nothing", you're really confused.
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> It updates the "remote" branches - the ones you are downlaoding.
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>> Sorry that's what I though initially too. But that's wrong.  Just clone
>> e.g. linux-next and then try to update it with pull a day later.
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> You SHOULD NOT DO THAT!
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> linux-next is not a tree that you can track. It's a tree that you can
> fetch _once_ and then throw away.
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> So what you can do is to "fetch" linux-next, and test it. But you MUST
> NEVER EVER use it for anything else. You can't do development on it, you
> cannot rebase onto it, you can't do _anything_ with it.
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> So what you can do is to "git fetch" it (to download it), and then "git
> checkout" to create a temporary checkout. That's pretty much all you can
> do with linux-next.