From: Santi <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:17:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking a branch using StGIT
Message-ID: <8aa486160609150417s288d6540tc8ee6aa83bbf67b4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0609150342y6105d8d1o61abb1934da9f51b@mail.gmail.com>

2006/9/15, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>:
> On 15/09/06, Rajkumar S <rajkumars+git@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using StGIT to track a branch of a remote git repository
> > (actually a remote cvs repository, which I am tracking cvsimport)
> [...]
> > The .git/remotes/origin is
> > URL: /usr/local/pfSense/upstream/pfSense/.git
> > Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
> > Pull: refs/heads/avendor:refs/heads/avendor
> > Pull: refs/heads/Package-Reorg-2005:refs/heads/Package-Reorg-2005
> > Pull: refs/heads/RELENG_1:refs/heads/RELENG_1
> >
> > My requirement is to track RELENG_1 branch with StGIT while
> > maintaining my own patches. but when I do a stg pull the messages are:
> [...]
> > It seems StGIT is trying to merge the origin branch from remote to
> > RELENG_1 of local. Is there a way to get RELENG_1 of remote to merge
> > with MyBranch (clone of "RELENG_1") of local?
>
> After StGIT pops all the patches, it just calls "git pull origin". My
> understanding of GIT is that this should update local RELENG_1 with
> the remote RELENG_1 from the "origin" repository. Anything wrong with
> my assumptions?
>

No. But the it merge the first pull line in .git/remotes/origin into
the current branch. So he only has to put the RELENG_1 line the first,
as:

URL: /usr/local/pfSense/upstream/pfSense/.git
Pull: refs/heads/RELENG_1:refs/heads/RELENG_1
Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
Pull: refs/heads/avendor:refs/heads/avendor
Pull: refs/heads/Package-Reorg-2005:refs/heads/Package-Reorg-2005

Santi