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From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how do you "force a pull"?
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:53:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070825115326.GB7122@falcon.digizenstudio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070825113747.GA21030@mimvista.com>

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:37:47AM -0400, David Watson wrote:
> $ git reset --hard origin/master

Ah, this is what I was looking for. Not very intuitive, but works like a
charm!

> You may be getting the "cannot merge message" if you have uncommitted
> changes, as git won't let you merge when the working copy is changed.
> git-pull is really git-fetch + git-merge.

Right, because I used "--soft" in the earlier reset.

Thanks!
-- 
Jing Xue

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-25 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-25 11:19 how do you "force a pull"? Jing Xue
2007-08-25 11:31 ` Dan Chokola
2007-08-25 11:37 ` David Watson
2007-08-25 11:53   ` Jing Xue [this message]
2007-08-25 13:19     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-08-26 19:02 ` Fredrik Tolf
2007-08-27  5:26   ` Jing Xue

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