Randal L. Schwartz venit, vidit, dixit 25.06.2009 16:33:
>>>>>> "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?
Uhm,
my version of git-fetch.1 has
-a, --append
Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
existing contents of .git/FETCH_HEAD. Without this option
old data in .git/FETCH_HEAD will be overwritten.
That at least scans better in English. It does not make it very clear
what the consequences are, though.
Michael
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