From: Catalin Marinas Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:42:26 GMT Subject: Re: Tracking a branch using StGIT Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <64de5c8b0609150120h3aeee6dcv976da13134396654@mail.gmail.com> On 15/09/06, Rajkumar S 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? -- Catalin