Re: Question regarding: git pull --no-commit origin

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On 3/26/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do: git pull --no-commit origin
> >
> > Receive messages ending in:
> >
> >        ...
> >       Updating 6a29cdd..b7ba33d
> >       Fast forward
> >       interface/testfile |    1 +
> >       1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >       create mode 100644 interface/testfile
> ...
> > However when I do: git commit -a
> >
> > I'm told: nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> >
> > Am I misunderstanding something?
>
> The pull was strictly a fast-forward.  No merge commit was necessary
> to record the merge, so we didn't actually honor the --no-commit
> argument.
>
> In other words, your current branch did not contain any commits
> that were not in the origin branch you were pulling from.  So
> a real merge wasn't required here.

Thanks Shawn, but my situation is I have the MASTER repository and I'm
pulling from a TEST repository. I want to double
check the updates other people have done
on the TEST repository, and if they are okay, then commit them.

If --no-commit won't let me do this then perhaps I need something like:

          git pull origin:testing
          git checkout testing
           .... test
          git checkout master ; git pull . testing

i.e., make a branch for the test changes and then merge this branch.

Cheers,
Geoff
>
> --
> Shawn.
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