Re: git pull/merge master on other branch

[SungHyun Nam <goweol@gmail.com>]

Johan Herland wrote, at 5/9/2008 3:24 PM:
> On Friday 09 May 2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I am on a branch (reguarly rebased), I don't want to switch to
>> master branch, but merge origin into master.
>> If I switch to master and pull and switch to branch, I have to
>> rebuild almost of sources.
>>
>> How I can pull origin into master without switching to master
>> branch?
> 
> You can't; merging requires use of the working tree (to resolve conflicts).
> 
> However, what you can do is make a local clone of your project (cheap,
> because it just hardlinks files from the original repo), and checkout the
> master branch in the clone, perform the merge (after having set up the same
> origin and retrieved its contents), and then fetch (or push) the result back
> into the original repo (remember: "fetch" instead of "pull", since the
> latter will initiate a merge with your current branch).

I tested and it seems work fine.

$ mkdir repo; cd repo; git init; echo 'aaa' > a; git add .; git ci -m 
'aaa'; cd ..
$ git clone repo t; cd t; git co -b test; cd ..
$ cd repo; echo 'bbb' >> a; git ci -m 'bbb' a; cd ..
$ git clone t t2; cd t2; git remote add central ../repo; git pull 
central master; git push origin; cd ..
$ cd t; git log; git log master; git rebase master

Did I do correctly?

Thanks,
namsh