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Re: [PATCH] fetch: refuse to fetch into the current branch in a non-bare repository

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2008, 21:44 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Some confusing tutorials suggest that it would be a good idea to call
> something like this:
>
> 	git pull origin master:master
>
> While it might make sense to store what you want to merge, it typically
> is plain wrong.
I am somewhat confused.

This "confusion" has been there for very long time and (at least the scripted version of) git-pull/git-fetch pair has supported a workaround in the form of --update-head-ok option.

Have we broken the workaround ll.127..147 in git-pull.sh recently, or are you trying to address something else?

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Message 2 of 24 in “fetch: refuse to fetch into the current branch in a non-bare repository”
  1. fetch: refuse to fetch into the current branch in a non-bare repositoryJohannes Schindelin, Oct 11, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceOct 12, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 13, 2008
  5. Shawn O. PearceOct 12, 2008
  6. Daniel BarkalowOct 12, 2008
  7. Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-okJohannes Schindelin, Oct 13, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceOct 13, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinOct 13, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 13, 2008
  13. Daniel BarkalowOct 13, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinOct 14, 2008
  15. Shawn O. PearceOct 14, 2008
  16. Daniel BarkalowOct 14, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinOct 14, 2008
  18. Daniel BarkalowOct 14, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinOct 14, 2008
  20. Daniel BarkalowOct 14, 2008
  21. Daniel BarkalowOct 14, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2008
  23. pull: allow "git pull origin $something:$current_branch" into an unborn branchJunio C Hamano, Oct 14, 2008
  24. Daniel BarkalowOct 13, 2008

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