From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:46:34 GMT Subject: Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree? Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30808221346g21999899s980be4411aabee0e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080822203606.GB1598@atjola.homenet> On 8/22/08, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2008.08.22 22:11:42 +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: >> since tip/master is often rebased (as pu or linux-next) what I do is >> the following: >> git branch -D tip-latest >> git checkout -b tip-latest tip/master >> >> but I guess lot of people would expect to "throw away" and "checkout >> again" with a single git command. > > git reset --hard tip/master good point. > or just don't create a local branch at all and do testing on a detached > HEAD, ie. just: > git checkout tip/master > > That works after each fetch. yes, that's the same suggestion that i got from linus. Thanks Bjorn, Linus. these hints should probably get some visibility in lkml as well. ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/