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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad git pull
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:42:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzmn2kjw1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68948ca0512151537v2d8f22c8x962c55bd507af8cf@mail.gmail.com> (Don Zickus's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:37:47 -0500")

Don Zickus <dzickus@gmail.com> writes:

> I notice if I create a branch (and switch to it) in the linux kernel
> off of say version 2.6.14, then later do a git pull, things get ugly. 
> It seems like all the upstream changes are being merged into the
> 2.6.14 branch (instead of the latest kernel tag).
>
> Is this a user error because the tool is still fragile?

I do not understand the question.

The user wanted all the good developments from the mainline into
the fork he created starting at 2.6.14, and the tool did what
was asked.  Why would you want to forbid that from happening,
and what did you want to happen instead?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-15 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-15 23:37 bad git pull Don Zickus
2005-12-15 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-12-15 23:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 15:39     ` Don Zickus
2005-12-16 17:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 17:25     ` Carl Baldwin
2005-12-16 19:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 18:07     ` Morten Welinder
2005-12-16 19:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 22:12         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17  0:37           ` Morten Welinder
2005-12-17  1:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17  1:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-17  7:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17  9:28                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-17 21:04                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18  3:02                       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-18  4:17                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18  6:31                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-18  7:15                           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-18 17:16                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-17  2:19             ` Junio C Hamano

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