"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I created a new branch in the kernel to carry a not yet official patch, to > keep this up to date I do: > > $ git fetch git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git That's only writing into FETCH_HEAD whatever branch is marked as HEAD in Linus' repository. No local refs are being updated. > $ git pull . origin So this won't merge in the changes fetched above. Why not setup that URL as a remote (git remote add linus ....) Then you can do: $ git fetch linus $ git merge linus/master or $ git fetch linus $ git pull . linus/master or $ git pull linus master -- Shawn. - 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