Re: fetch and pull

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

"John Dlugosz" <JDlugosz@TradeStation.com> writes:

> So, after inspecting the changes, how do you fast-forward your local dev
> to sync up with origin/dev?
> 
> I'm worried that
> 
> 	git pull origin dev
> 
> will try to merge into the current head.  The documentation indicates
> "The remote ref that matches <src> is fetched, and if <dst> is not empty
> string, the local ref that matches it is fast forwarded using <src>."
> which is what I want, but it does NOT say that the normal behavior of
> merging origin/dev into the =current= HEAD, if it happens to not be the
> local dev.
> 
> So, does it indeed suppress that behavior if you give it an explicit
> destination?  Or will I have to checkout dev first before doing the
> pull, to prevent strange things from happening?  Hmm, or perhaps I
> should be using merge, not pull?  After all, pull is really just a
> wrapper around fetch and then merge, right?  So is it OK to call merge
> when I really want to fast-forward, and is there an option to give an
> error if it isn't ff?

There was patch series adding support --ff=only, but I think it didn't
made into git...  Hmmm...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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