>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Junio> (5) Continue pretending to be Linus, complete the octopus. The key is to
Junio> let the "fetch" phase of this to append to the FETCH_HEAD, not
Junio> replacing it.
Junio> $ git pull --append \
Junio> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current \
Junio> for-linus
The relatively current doc of "--append" looks like this:
-a, --append
Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the existing
contents of will be overwritten.
I read this three times, and still don't know what it means (and it doesn't
even scan well as English), so I would have never known to use this strategy.
Can you explain this more in detail, or point at something in the mailing list
that does?
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