Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 15/09/06, Rajkumar S <rajkumars+git@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am using StGIT to track a branch of a remote git repository >> (actually a remote cvs repository, which I am tracking cvsimport) > [...] >> The .git/remotes/origin is >> URL: /usr/local/pfSense/upstream/pfSense/.git >> Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin >> Pull: refs/heads/avendor:refs/heads/avendor >> Pull: refs/heads/Package-Reorg-2005:refs/heads/Package-Reorg-2005 >> Pull: refs/heads/RELENG_1:refs/heads/RELENG_1 >> >> My requirement is to track RELENG_1 branch with StGIT while >> maintaining my own patches. but when I do a stg pull the messages are: > [...] >> It seems StGIT is trying to merge the origin branch from remote to >> RELENG_1 of local. Is there a way to get RELENG_1 of remote to merge >> with MyBranch (clone of "RELENG_1") of local? > > After StGIT pops all the patches, it just calls "git pull origin". My > understanding of GIT is that this should update local RELENG_1 with > the remote RELENG_1 from the "origin" repository. Anything wrong with > my assumptions? > Well that will update origin, and then merge the result with the current branch. That second part probabally isn't what you had in mind. Normally you would git fetch origin to stop that happening, but that also can't update the branch you are on. Not sure if this helps. -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html