Subject: Re: Re: Qn about git pull and git fetch

From: Eric Raible <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:51:23 -0700

On 11:59 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> Your branches should be set to track automatically but if they didn't for
> some reason and are using v1.7.0 or newer, you can:
> 
> $ git branch --set-upstream master origin/next
> Branch master set up to track remote branch next from origin.
> $ git pull
> 
> If you're using git prior to v1.7.0, you can instead:
> 
> $ git config branch.master.remote origin
> $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
> $ git pull

Seems to me that to be equivalent, the first should be:

	git branch --set-upstream master origin/master

or the second should be:

	git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/next

Eh?