Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-13T05:15:02Z

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So let's say that you have a remote branch that you track that goes
> rebasing (let's call it "origin/pu" to match the real-life git behaviour),
> then you should literally be able to do
>
> old=$(git rev-parse origin/pu) &&
> git fetch &&
> new=$(git rev-parse origin/pu) &&
> git rebase --onto $new $old
>
> and no, I didn't actually test it, but hey, it really should be that
> simple.

Or, with Git 1.5.4, just:

git pull --rebase

And I didn't test it yet either. Same caveats do apply.

Nicolas