From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:09:21 GMT
Subject: Re: How to update a cloned git repository
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_jXA0WfC-de=mD7-+2oJiep_A2rKSZdSsqn7CcNJPsq5A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <006f01cd900e$fce59a60$f6b0cf20$@schmitz-digital.de>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Joachim Schmitz
<jojo@schmitz-digital.de> wrote:

> Like this?
> git pull --rebase HEAD~42
>
> So far I create patches, wiped out the entire repository, cloned, forked and applied the changes, pretty painful.

I think a 'git pull --rebase' should usually work even for 'pu'.

But sometimes pu may have changes that take away the basis for your
patch (i.e, not just a restructure) then you'd get conflicts.