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..."
next prev parent 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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