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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FETCH_HEAD question
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:43:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490902162043k78e615b5g7ba4b7ac95e73b18@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I did this the other day out of mild curiosity:

$ git fetch
$ git merge FETCH_HEAD

Which did something, but not something that was at all useful. It
merges in the first ref listed in FETCH_HEAD. It does not appear to be
an accident that it does this, as git merge has special treatment for
FETCH_HEAD to generate the merge message.

Why does this behavior exist? Historical?

j.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-17  4:43 Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-02-17  5:11 ` FETCH_HEAD question Jay Soffian
2009-02-17  5:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-17  6:21   ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-17  7:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-17  7:41       ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-17  8:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-17 17:14           ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-17 17:22             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-17 17:34               ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-17 22:58                 ` PUSH_HEAD, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-17 23:43                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-18  0:29                     ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-18  0:30                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-17  8:25     ` Sitaram Chamarty

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