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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Dave Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Merging a foreign tree into a bare repository.
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:40:52 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807090238561.5277@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215562468.4199.26.camel@moss-terrapins.epoch.ncsc.mil>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Dave Quigley wrote:

> I tried to then merge them but you need a working directory to merge the 
> changes which makes sense.

Of course it does.  Merging runs the risk of conflicts, and you need a 
working directory for that.

> How would one go about doing this with a bare repository?

Very easy: clone it ("non-barely"), merge, and push back the results.

You _need_ a working directory for the merge.

Hth,
Dscho "who wonders what No Such Agency does with Git..."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09  0:14 Merging a foreign tree into a bare repository Dave Quigley
2008-07-09  0:40 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-09 14:25   ` Alejandro Riveira
2008-07-09 17:27   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-09 18:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-09 21:04       ` Eric Raible

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