Re: git pull versus fetch/merge

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2008.07.21 13:30:12 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 21-07-08 13:09, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:58:10PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you. Also due to a reply on the ALSA list by Mark brown I now 
>>> get  this. Yes, the remote was rebased while I had it setup as a 
>>> remote here  it seems; only recently have it under this name, so I 
>>> didn't think that  was the case. After a "git remote rm tiwai, git 
>>> remote add tiwai <url>"  things work fine again as it fetched a 
>>> completely new branch.
>>
>> Note that adding the remote with "git remote add" will add a fetchspec
>> line like this:
>>
>> [remote "tiwai"]
>>   fetch = +refs/heads/*:+refs/remotes/tiwai/*
>>
>> where the '+' means to force fetching rewound branches instead of
>> rejecting them (this is safe, since you are just overwriting tracking
>> branches, not your local work).
>
> Not here...
>
> rene@7ixe4:~/src/linux/7ixe4$ git remote add tmp  
> git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel.git
> rene@7ixe4:~/src/linux/7ixe4$ tail -3 .git/config 
>
> [remote "tmp"]
> 	url = git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel.git
> 	fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/tmp/*
> rene@7ixe4:~/src/linux/7ixe4$ git --version
> git version 1.5.5

Broken in 1.5.5 and 1.5.5.1, Jeff's fix went into 1.5.5.2. Bad luck ;-)

Björn