Heya, On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 21:07, Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How will GIT tell me about this hidden change? Will a "git pull" just bring > this change into my working copy, whithout telling me about the change? It will tell you it did a "forced update", assuming the other side has been set as your upstream. If you do a pull (rather than a fetch) it will try to apply the changes right away too. Demonstration: sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code $ git init test Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sverre/code/test/.git/ sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code $ cd test/ sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ echo "content" > foo sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ git add foo sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ git commit -m "Initial" [master (root-commit) 9d48240] Initial 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 foo sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ echo "second line" >> foo sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ git commit -am "Proper second modification" [master 8367122] Proper second modification 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ cd .. sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code $ git clone test/ foo Cloning into foo... done. sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code $ cd test/ sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ echo "and a third" >> content sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ git commit --amend -am "Tampered second modification" [master 87d8e8a] Tampered second modification 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/test $ cd ../foo/ sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/foo $ git pull remote: Counting objects: 5, done. remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done. >From /home/sverre/code/test + 8367122...87d8e8a master -> origin/master (forced update) Merge made by recursive. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- 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