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How to update from remote origin with local modified branch?

Subject: How to update from remote origin with local modified branch?

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GittyUser· Dec 2, 2009, 11:22 UTC · lore

I have once cloned a a project from a remote repository: git cloned http://repo.or.cz/r/openbsc.git

After that I modified some files and commited. In the mean time the remote repository had several commits. Now I want to update my local repo from the remote repo but I also want to keep my own commits. So, when doing "git pull" I get the message that certain files needs to be updated.

Now, how can I get my local repo, with my own modification, updated by the remote repo? I know I need to be aware that those updates (or commits) from remote must not conflict with my local.

Thank you.

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Michael J Gruber· Dec 2, 2009, 14:26 UTC · re: GittyUser · lore

Re: How to update from remote origin with local modified branch?

GittyUser venit, vidit, dixit 02.12.2009 12:22:

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> I have once cloned a a project from a remote repository:
> git cloned http://repo.or.cz/r/openbsc.git
> 
> After that I modified some files and commited.
> In the mean time the remote repository had several commits. Now I want to
> update my local repo from the remote repo but I also want to keep my own
> commits. So, when doing "git pull" I get the message that certain files
> needs to be updated.
> 
> Now, how can I get my local repo, with my own modification, updated by the
> remote repo?
> I know I need to be aware that those updates (or commits) from remote must
> not conflict with my local.
> 
> Thank you.

I think you want to read up on workflows with git and decide whether you want to rebase or merge. In short, git fetch --all (which is called by git pull) will update your remote tracking branches (origin/*), and then you can decide what to do with your local branch (probably master): Do you merge origin/master into master, or do you rebase master onto origin/master?

Michael

GittyUser· Dec 2, 2009, 16:20 UTC · re: Michael J Gruber · lore

Re: How to update from remote origin with local modified branch?

Michael J Gruber-2 wrote:

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> 
> I think you want to read up on workflows with git and decide whether you
> want to rebase or merge. In short, git fetch --all (which is called by
> git pull) will update your remote tracking branches (origin/*), and then
> you can decide what to do with your local branch (probably master): Do
> you merge origin/master into master, or do you rebase master onto
> origin/master?
>

Thnx for your response,

What I want is merge origin/master to local branch master. My mistake is to have some uncommited files and I guess that's the reason why it's not, pardon me, it could not be updated. So I try to commit the files, but still had issues about unmerged files. So as advised I did "git add -f unmergedfile" and than they were added to the Index. Did finally the commit and now get the "Already up-to-date" message after a pull command.

Still need to practice a lot to know what is exactly going on.

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