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Re: How to update a cloned git repository

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 11, 2012, 16:05 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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> [ Re-adding git@vger in Cc, I guess it was meant to be so ]
>
> "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:
>
>>> Then, work on the tip of the topic branch you depend on instead of pu.
>>> These are more stable, as they will be rewritten only if this particular
>>> topic branch changes.
>>
>> These are not available from git hub. Or are they? How?
>
> I think they exist in some of the repos junio pushes to, but I don't
> remember how/which one.
>
> Anyway, you can easily get it from the commit that merges the branch
> (it's the-merge-commit^1).

I think it is the-merge-commit^2; contrib/git-resurrect.sh might be of interest, too.

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  1. Joachim SchmitzSep 11, 2012
  2. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2012
  3. Joachim SchmitzSep 11, 2012
  4. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2012
  5. Sitaram ChamartySep 11, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2012
  7. Joachim SchmitzSep 11, 2012
  8. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2012
  9. Joachim SchmitzSep 11, 2012
  10. Erik Faye-LundSep 11, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2012
  13. Joachim SchmitzSep 11, 2012
  14. Matthieu MoySep 12, 2012

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