Re: git pull/merge master on other branch

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On Friday 09 May 2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I am on a branch (reguarly rebased), I don't want to switch to
> master branch, but merge origin into master.
> If I switch to master and pull and switch to branch, I have to
> rebuild almost of sources.
> 
> How I can pull origin into master without switching to master
> branch?

You can't; merging requires use of the working tree (to resolve conflicts).

However, what you can do is make a local clone of your project (cheap,
because it just hardlinks files from the original repo), and checkout the
master branch in the clone, perform the merge (after having set up the same
origin and retrieved its contents), and then fetch (or push) the result back
into the original repo (remember: "fetch" instead of "pull", since the
latter will initiate a merge with your current branch).


Have fun! :)

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
www.herland.net
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