From: Michael Witten Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 18:20:56 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie grief Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4FA02830.3040407@palm.com> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 18:15, Rich Pixley wrote: > I want pull to work even without merging.  I want to be able to share a > branch between different repositories and different users while the source > code control system tracks this for me I believe you are missing the point that a `pull' in git is a `fetch' followed by a `merge'. You should read about the `fetch' command by reading (`git help fetch'), and make sure you understand how to use refspecs; you will probably find it very instructive to play around by specifying explicit refspecs to `git fetch' rather than relying on the implicit rules (which can be somewhat confusing).