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Re: RFC: git pull <remote> making an octopus?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 15, 2006, 07:45 UTC
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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 8/14/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>>  - when dealing with the refspecs from the shorthand
>>    (.git/remotes), the one on the first "Pull: " line is for
>>    merge and everything else is not.
>
> What happens if you have _many_ refspecs in a "Pull:"-line?

You should be able to make octopus -- I designed it that way on purpose, but I haven't used that (mis)-"feature" for quite a while, so it might have got broken along the way ;-).

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  1. Michael S. TsirkinAug 14, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2006
  3. Michael S. TsirkinAug 14, 2006
  4. Michael S. TsirkinAug 14, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2006
  6. Alex RiesenAug 15, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2006
  9. Alex RiesenAug 17, 2006
  10. Michael S. TsirkinAug 17, 2006

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