From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:57:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Now what: multiple HEAD refs
Message-ID: <81b0412b0512150757v3acf1bdfudbe9ff26b544b196@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512151638260.3104@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 12/15/05, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > not make any sense to me; I am puzzled ... what are you trying
> > > to achieve with "git pull . ref1:HEAD"?
> >
> > merge branch ref1 into current. Is that not a correct refspec?
>
> No, it is not correct. To pull means that you want to merge the fetched
> ref (your ref1), and store the result in the current branch.
>
> But if you write "ref1:HEAD", you pretend that you want to fast-forward
> the local branch "HEAD" to ref1, and get an error if it is not
> forwardable.
>
> In your case, I guess, "git pull ref1" is what you meant.

I did, I guess...
Confused now.