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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:56:39 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> But I presume that's a reasonable common usage. Would it
> make sense to have some standard git sub command that does that?
> ("get latest state of remote branch, doing what it takes to get it")
> Or is there already one that I missed?

Isn't that just

    git fetch somewhere branchname
    git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD

?

Have fun,

Avery