From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:14:28 GMT Subject: Re: How to merge FETCH_HEAD? Message-ID: <7vk5zmtc1n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20070117050955.GC4329@mellanox.co.il> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: >> No. FETCH_HEAD is local. And for local merges, you should use git-merge, >> not git-pull. > > But, that can not take FETCH_HEAD either. > Would it be useful for git-merge FETCH_HEAD to work? Please try again, starting from the "git fetch". I suspect the reason you think "merge FETCH_HEAD" does not work is because you lost FETCH_HEAD when you did "git pull . FETCH_HEAD", as I explained to you in an earlier message.