Re: how do you "force a pull"?

From: Dan Chokola <dan@chokola.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2007, 11:31 UTC
Message-ID: <61e816970708250431s1a05a30u992cfcde4f956e85@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070825111946.GA7122@falcon.digizenstudio.com>

On 8/25/07, Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> wrote:

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> I am working in repo1, and make a savepoint commit and pack up and leave.
>
> On another machine, I have a clone of repo1 (repo2). So I pull from
> repo1, "git reset --soft HEAD" to get rid of the savepoint commit, and start working in repo2.
>
> A while later I realize the earlier commit was actually a good commit
> point. But I can no longer pull it again from repo1. It keeps giving me
> the "Cannot merge" fatal error. "-f" doesn't help.
>
> So in general my question is "how do you force pulling from a remote
> repository?"  (short of, you know, recloning the repo...)
>
> I have a feeling that either I'm still stuck in the traditional central-repository
> mentality, or missing something real simple.
>
> Thanks.
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> Jing Xue
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I've had the same trouble and it also brings up the question, why
can't one fetch into the current branch? To work around git pull's
behavior, I generally either:
- git reset --hard HEAD^^^^^^^ && git pull
 or
- git checkout someotherbranch && git fetch -f origin master

So why doesn't pull -f understand that it should force an update to the history? And is there some reason I'm missing for why fetch won't fetch on the current branch?

-- 
Dan Chokola