From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: Could this be done simpler? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:33:30 -0700 Message-ID: <863a9oz8lh.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <7veit9m8cs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 25 16:33:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJq1D-0005UJ-0b for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:33:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753120AbZFYOd2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:33:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751663AbZFYOd1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:33:27 -0400 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:12267 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbZFYOd1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:33:27 -0400 Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 415551DE345; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:33:30 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.16.8.5; tzolkin = 3 Chicchan; haab = 3 Tzec In-Reply-To: <7veit9m8cs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:04:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> (5) Continue pretending to be Linus, complete the octopus. The key is to Junio> let the "fetch" phase of this to append to the FETCH_HEAD, not Junio> replacing it. Junio> $ git pull --append \ Junio> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current \ Junio> for-linus The relatively current doc of "--append" looks like this: -a, --append Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the existing contents of will be overwritten. I read this three times, and still don't know what it means (and it doesn't even scan well as English), so I would have never known to use this strategy. Can you explain this more in detail, or point at something in the mailing list that does? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion