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cannot see git-fetch result in gitk

Subject: cannot see git-fetch result in gitk

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3 messages between Dec 1, 2007 and Dec 2, 2007.

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Tilman Schmidt· Dec 1, 2007, 12:34 UTC · lore

I'm still learning my way around git and trying to understand how it works. So after reading http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt I wanted to try and understand the command sequence

git fetch origin git rebase FETCH_HEAD

by looking at what it does with gitk. But after the first command I do not see any change at all in gitk. Only after the second one do the newly fetched objects appear in the gitk display.

Simple question: why?

Thanks, Tilman

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Jakub Narebski· Dec 1, 2007, 13:55 UTC · re: Tilman Schmidt · lore

Re: cannot see git-fetch result in gitk

Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> writes:
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> I'm still learning my way around git and trying to understand how it
> works. So after reading
>   howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
> I wanted to try and understand the command sequence
> 
> git fetch origin
> git rebase FETCH_HEAD
> 
> by looking at what it does with gitk. But after the first command I do
> not see any change at all in gitk. Only after the second one do the
> newly fetched objects appear in the gitk display.
> 
> Simple question: why?

Did you run just "gitk"? By default gitk displays only current branch, while git-fetch changes remote-tracking branches only. Try "gitk --all", or "gitk origin/master ..." enumerating explicitely all remote branches.

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Tilman Schmidt· Dec 2, 2007, 15:15 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: cannot see git-fetch result in gitk

Am 01.12.2007 14:55 schrieb Jakub Narebski:
> Did you run just "gitk"? By default gitk displays only current branch,

Thanks, that explains it. It might be a good idea to mention that in the manpage.

> while git-fetch changes remote-tracking branches only. Try 
> "gitk --all", or "gitk origin/master ..." enumerating explicitely all
> remote branches.

Ok, thanks, will try that next time git-fetch actually finds something to fetch. ;-)

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