Re: Do we need to reset the master branch?

["Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:44:32AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:32:17 -0700 "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was in the master branch of powerpc.git and did a 'git-pull'
> 
> Sorry, I hadn't updated since this afternoon.  Looks like Paul has reset
> his master tree to be the same as Linus', so you do need to do a reset.
> Or checkout a separate branch and use
> 
> git fetch -f <powerpc.git tree> master:<whatever branch tracks master>
> 
> Using recent git (after 1.5.something), you can track the whole powerpc
> tree like this:
> 
> git remote add powerpc git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git
> git fetch powerpc
> 
> This will track the tree in branches called powerpc/<branch> and do
> resets as necessary.

Oh, that's cool  Thanks Stephen.

Mark