From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 01:19:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Pulling from refs/remotes/ ?
Message-ID: <7v7iqxvgx8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <f35d9n$21e$1@sea.gmane.org>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> why can't I pull from a remote?  I can do 
>
>   git log REMOTE-BRANCH
>   git diff BRANCH REMOTE-BRANCH
>
> etc. But pulling yields
>
>  [hanwen@haring foobar]$ git pull . origin/nonrandr-setup
>  error: no such remote ref refs/heads/origin/nonrandr-setup
>  Fetch failure: .
>
> also, "Fetch failure: .", what is that supposed to mean?

You are treating your local repository as if it is a remote
repository somewhere else, namely, '.' (current repository).

Notice "git log" and "git diff" are LOCAL operations?  "git
pull" is "git fetch" which is a remote operation (i.e. it
interacts with a remote repository) followed by "git merge"
which is a local operation to merge in what was fetched or what
you already have locally.

I think you would want:

	git merge REMOTE-BRANCH

e.g. "git merge origin/nonrandr-setup".