Re: Question about "git pull --rebase"

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Johan 't Hart <johanthart@gmail.com> wrote:
> This does not update any remote tracking branches, but it will rebase your
> foo branch on the remote master branch (which is what you want)
> It could also be done with:
>
> git pull --rebase origin master:origin/master
>
> This will also update your remote tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/master
> to match the master branch on the remote repo. Your foo branch will then be
> rebased onto it.

BTW, this seems to be not exact.

$ git pull --rebase origin master:origin/master

fetches the 'master' branch on the remote repo, then creates a new
branch 'origin/master', which is updated with the fetched branch.

To update the remote tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/master, I
need to issue:

$ git pull --rebase origin master:remotes/origin/master

BTW2,  it looks like if the <dst> local ref doesn't exist the it will
be created. This something that appears very lately in the man page
(actually I can see the information only in the last example). This
could be part of the <refspec> defintion.

Thanks
-- 
Francis