From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: More help with "pull" please Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:24:20 -0700 Message-ID: <7viqlnokrv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A7D4D9A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <4659A860-4AF5-4E34-B38E-60C926E2BAE1@dbservice.com> <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A7D4E71@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: John Dlugosz , To: Tomas Carnecky X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 02 04:26:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LpCd3-0003Wx-M1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:26:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756021AbZDBCY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:24:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753670AbZDBCY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:24:29 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:46672 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750913AbZDBCY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:24:28 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487A6BC9C; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:24:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80F7BBC9B; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:24:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tomas Carnecky's message of "Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:14:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 62FF9932-1F2D-11DE-BDE1-C5D912508E2D-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tomas Carnecky writes: >> OK, that works by adding something to the config file, right? The >> docs >> don't say, but does mention "having Pull: lines for a >> ". 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..remote and with the remote..* variables in .git/config are used to control these more recent features. So in that sense the documentation is still correct.