Re: Qn about git pull and git fetch

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On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Eric Raible wrote:

> On 11:59 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>> 
> 
>> Your branches should be set to track automatically but if they didn't for
>> some reason and are using v1.7.0 or newer, you can:
>> 
>> $ git branch --set-upstream master origin/next
>> Branch master set up to track remote branch next from origin.
>> $ git pull
>> 
>> If you're using git prior to v1.7.0, you can instead:
>> 
>> $ git config branch.master.remote origin
>> $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
>> $ git pull
> 
> Seems to me that to be equivalent, the first should be:
> 
> 	git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
> 
> or the second should be:
> 
> 	git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/next
> 
> Eh?

Oops.  I had forgotten to change the first one after some experimenting on the git.git repo.  I had meant

$ git branch --set-upstream master origin/master

Far more repos have a master branch than a next one.

~~ Brian

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