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Re: Could this be done simpler?

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2009, 14:33 UTC
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>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Junio> (5) Continue pretending to be Linus, complete the octopus. The key is to Junio> let the "fetch" phase of this to append to the FETCH_HEAD, not Junio> replacing it.

Junio> $ git pull --append \ Junio> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current \ Junio> for-linus

The relatively current doc of "--append" looks like this:
       -a, --append
           Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the existing
           contents of will be overwritten.

I read this three times, and still don't know what it means (and it doesn't even scan well as English), so I would have never known to use this strategy. Can you explain this more in detail, or point at something in the mailing list that does?

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  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  3. Randal L. SchwartzJun 25, 2009
  4. Matthias AndreeJun 25, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  6. Matthias AndreeJun 25, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  9. Michael J GruberJun 25, 2009
  10. Christian CouderJun 25, 2009
  11. Christian CouderJun 25, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  13. Linus TorvaldsJun 25, 2009
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