Kevin Ballard wrote, at 5/10/2008 2:16 AM:
> On May 9, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Johan Herland wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
>
> If you know the pull will just be a fast-foward, then you can do
> something like
>
> git fetch origin && git update-ref master origin/master
It seems it worked, but I see a warning message "refname 'master'
is ambiguous." Can I fix this warning message?
[test] ~/tmp/t[52]$ git fetch origin
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From /d/user/namsh/tmp/repo/
6e13bb5..8d1c620 master -> origin/master
[test] ~/tmp/t[53]$ git update-ref master origin/master
[test] ~/tmp/t[69]$ git log master
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
commit a358783b78facffb9a8f69d2189aa716495d95ba
..
[test] ~/tmp/t[54]$ git rebase master
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Fast-forwarded test to master.
regards,
namsh
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