Re: new to git

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 15:43:47 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
> After many years of dissatisfaction with the limitations of CVS, and
> after getting fed up with the complexity of configuring and maintaining
> a SVN setup, I just started using git for my own personal projects.  I
> have to say it's quite nice and fits the UNIX philosophy well: fast,
> simple, powerful.
> 
> I've been playing with it for a few weeks and generally understand what
> is going on, but I do have a few usage questions that I couldn't find
> answered in the docs:
> 
> (1) Let's say I:
> 
> git clone something
> git branch foo
> git checkout foo
> <make some changes>
> git commit -a
> git checkout master
> git pull . foo

git merge foo

would be probably both clearer about the intent and more efficient here.
After all, pull is just a simple wrapper for fetch + merge and you don't need
the fetch from the repository to itself.

> git push
> git pull

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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