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From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fast forward a branch from another
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:26:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCC0A4F.7000800@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsjsjdhud.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>


On 05/12/2011 12:06 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
> Instead of switching to "stable", while still on the development, you
> could do
>
> 	$ git push . HEAD:stable
>
> which would succeed only when you are purely ahead of stable (otherwise it
> will fail as you are not forcing).
>

Wow!  Another gem. I didn't realize you could use 'dot' to refer to the
same repo you're in.

I don't see this feature listed in the git push [REMOTES] section.  Is
it documented somewhere else?

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 14:40 fast forward a branch from another Eric Frederich
2011-05-12 15:31 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-12 15:34   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-12 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-12 16:26   ` Phil Hord [this message]
2011-05-12 16:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-12 16:58       ` Phil Hord

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