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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [HOWTO] Using git for mtd (v3)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:16:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060423131643.GD19326@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0604230605s4ef156aev67d498eed9be629b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 23 April 2006 08:05:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > 4. Fetch mtd tree
> >
> >   $ git fetch mtd
> 
> Does that really do what you want though?  It will fetch the objects
> from the mtd-2.6 tree, but it doesn't merge them into your local tree
> from what I remember.  So to actually get the changes into the source,
> you'd have to do 'git fetch mtd'; 'git merge', no?

That doesn't do a merge, correct.  I was told that a merge is to be
avoided at all costs.  What it does is create a branch that i switch
to in step 5.

Jörn

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, but
not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-23 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-22 16:51 [HOWTO] Using git for mtd Jörn Engel
2006-04-22 17:11 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-23  0:09   ` Josh Boyer
2006-04-23  1:24     ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-23 12:08   ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-23 12:17     ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-23 12:23       ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-23 12:20   ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-23 12:27   ` [HOWTO] Using git for mtd (v3) Jörn Engel
2006-04-23 13:05     ` Josh Boyer
2006-04-23 13:16       ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2006-04-23 13:12     ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-23 13:27     ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-23 13:40     ` [HOWTO] Using git for mtd (v4) Jörn Engel
2006-04-23 16:04       ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-23 17:46     ` [HOWTO] Using git for mtd (v3) Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-23 17:56       ` Jörn Engel

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