From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More help with "pull" please
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:24:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viqlnokrv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F364AB31-EC5B-4719-834E-58613BDBC433@dbservice.com> (Tomas Carnecky's message of "Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:14:45 +0200")
Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> writes:
>> OK, that works by adding something to the config file, right? The
>> docs
>> don't say, but does mention "having Pull: <refspec> lines for a
>> <repository>". Does tracking add Pull: lines, or is that another
>> feature?
>
> I think Pull: lines are not used anymore in newer
> repositories.
If your repository is using .git/remotes/origin to name the "origin"
remote, they are still honored. But you are correct to point out that
branch.<name>.remote and with the remote.<name>.* variables in .git/config
are used to control these more recent features. So in that sense the
documentation is still correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 19:28 More help with "pull" please John Dlugosz
2009-04-01 20:15 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-04-01 22:53 ` John Dlugosz
2009-04-01 23:14 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-04-01 23:26 ` John Dlugosz
2009-04-02 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-02 14:45 ` John Dlugosz
2009-04-02 15:18 ` Tomas Carnecky
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