Re: Git branching & pulling

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 19, 2007, 06:05 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm41xsa2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xblz71o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> "Wink Saville" <wink@saville.com> writes:
>
>> Could someone give me some insight or point me at a url or doc
>> that could shed some light on what is happening and why git-pull
>> doesn't work on kvm.git.
>
> DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section of
>
>     http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pull.html 
>
> would be the place to start.  Recent git-clone (post 1.5.0, I think)
> prepares the following configuration variables for you by default:
>
>         remote.origin.url
>         remote.origin.fetch
> 	branch.master.remote
>         branch.master.merge
>
> but repositories created by older git-clone didn't.

	/me says "oops I did not finish the sentence".

but repositories created by older git-clone didn't get these configuration variables set. If you set them appropriately, taking example of your other repository (and probably you would also want to remove .git/remotes/origin while you are at it), you can omit saying which branch to pull from where.

I personally never understood why people would just want to say "git pull" without saying anything else, but what described in the DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section is how it works.