From: Dan Chokola Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:31:45 GMT Subject: Re: how do you "force a pull"? Message-ID: <61e816970708250431s1a05a30u992cfcde4f956e85@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070825111946.GA7122@falcon.digizenstudio.com> On 8/25/07, Jing Xue wrote: > 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. > -- > Jing Xue > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > 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