David Woodhouse, Sat, May 05, 2007 14:29:26 +0200: > [remote "origin"] > url = ssh://git.infradead.org/~/public_git/foo-2.6.git > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > fetch = +refs/heads/mtd:refs/heads/mtd > fetch = +refs/heads/linus:refs/heads/linus These pluses request overwriting of the local reference even if it has more commits than the remote ("is newer"). Are you sure you want that? > What I have at the moment isn't ideal because I think pulling from the > 'mtd' tree will fail if the 'linus' branch there is older than the local > clone's 'linus' branch. But it mostly works. > > Is there a better way? I would just remove the pluses. git-fetch will say that the branch is already up-to-date, if the local branch already has everything the remote has. - 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