From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:33:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Could this be done simpler?
Message-ID: <863a9oz8lh.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7veit9m8cs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

>>>>> "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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