Subject: Re: git bug? + question

From: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:53:25 +0100

On Friday 2006 November 03 07:48, Karl Hasselström wrote:

> Hmm, this is interesting. 99% of the time, I use "git fetch", followed
> by "git pull . remotes/origin/foo" (often having run gitk in between

I often do this too; and have found that the "remotes" is not needed provided 
there is no overlap with your local branch names.  The above can be replaced 
with

  git pull . origin/foo

This relies on there being no "origin/foo" local branch.

Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE