Hi Taylor, Am Fr., 18. Sept. 2020 um 16:02 Uhr schrieb Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi Andreas, > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:13:52PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering if there's a way to apply a particular head in a bundle > > to a source tree, for example: > > > > $ git bundle create v5.9-rc1.bundle v5.8..v5.9-rc1 > > $ cd linux-5.8 > > $ git bundle APPLY ../5.9-rc1.bundle v5.9-rc1 > > Sort of. You can specify a refspec when fetching from the bundle to > fetch only the objects you care about, like: > > cd linux-5.8 > git fetch /path/to/bundle 'refs/tags/v5.9-rc1:refs/tags/v5.9-rc1' > > (or if you prefer, "git fetch /path/to/bundle 'tag v5.9-rc1'"). Then > once you have the objects locally, you can merge it into your HEAD. You > can do all of that in one step with: > > git pull /path/to/bundle 'refs/tags/v5.9-rc1' > > There's no such thing as 'git bundle apply' though, although I suspect > 'git pull' is what you wanted anyway. I was actually looking for a way to apply a bundle to an actual source tree, not a git repository. Fetching stuff from a bundle into a repository seems to be reasonably well documented. Thanks, Andreas
