On 8/22/08, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2008.08.22 22:11:42 +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: >> since tip/master is often rebased (as pu or linux-next) what I do is >> the following: >> git branch -D tip-latest >> git checkout -b tip-latest tip/master >> >> but I guess lot of people would expect to "throw away" and "checkout >> again" with a single git command. > > git reset --hard tip/master good point. > or just don't create a local branch at all and do testing on a detached > HEAD, ie. just: > git checkout tip/master > > That works after each fetch. yes, that's the same suggestion that i got from linus. Thanks Bjorn, Linus. these hints should probably get some visibility in lkml as well. ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ -- 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