Re: git pull w/o checkout?

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Kumar Gala wrote:

> 
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:10:10AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>>>> git-fetch?
>>> Its the first half, still need to resolve FETCH_HEAD, HEAD, etc..
>>
>> Can you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish?
> 
> A local mirror of a git tree.  I can do the clone easy enough, its  
> trying to figure out the updates after the fact that is the issue.

Assuming typical configuration, with the following in remotes/origin

---[ <path-to-repo>/.git/remotes/origin ]----
URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
Pull:+refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
Pull: refs/heads/man:refs/heads/man
Pull: refs/heads/html:refs/heads/html
Pull: refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next
Pull: refs/heads/todo:refs/heads/todo
Pull: refs/heads/maint:refs/heads/maint
---------------------------------------------

to update your repository, do:

$ git checkout master
$ git fetch origin

Any branch except listed ot fhose fetched to will do, or even any command
that leaves HEAD different than one of the branches fetched to. Everything
is updated. Then you can do the second part of pull, using

$ git checkout master
$ git pull . master

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git