On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:31:23 +0300 Konstantin Kivi <kkivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> `git pull` does exactly that: fetch + merge (which should result in >> fast-forward in your case). > pull does not work on bare repos. Then the only way to update any branch after fetching I can think of is using `git update-ref` and the information from FETCH_HEAD. >>> I also found that there is a notions of current branch in bare >>> repository >>> How can I change current branch in bare repositry? > I think I will understand things better if I get what is 'current > branch' for bare repository and how to change it >> By re-writing the HEAD ref (this behaviour is documented in the >> man page of the `git clone` command, see the "--branch" option for >> instance). > The repository already exists, so git-clone will not help I did not propose to use git-clone, I just stated which section of which manual page hints at what is considered to be the current branch in a bare repository when Git clones it. >> You can use the `git symbolic-ref` to update the HEAD ref. > Do you mean something like > git symbolic-ref master origin/master ? Something like git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master P.S. I also wonder how did you manage to get origin/master in a bare repository. When I `git clone --bare` an existing Git repository, I get one branch named "master" (or whatever branch was current in the source repository), and in the `git clone` manual page we see: --bare Make a bare GIT repository. That is, instead of creating <directory> and placing the administrative files in <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR. This obviously implies the -n because there is nowhere to check out the working tree. Also the branch heads at the remote are copied directly to corresponding local branch heads, without mapping them to refs/remotes/origin/. When this option is used, neither remote-tracking branches nor the related configuration variables are created. Which describes the behaviour I see. So it seems you have somehow botched setup. Like you took a non-bare repository and just copied its ".git" subdirectory somewhere pretending it's now a bare repo. -- 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