From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:05:52 GMT
Subject: Re: How to update a cloned git repository
Message-ID: <7v1ui8k0in.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nn4d968.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> [ 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.