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diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt index 0cd33fb5b7..51dd6c6164 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt @@ -1129,46 +1129,26 @@ juggle multiple lines of development simultaneously. Of course, you will pay the price of more disk usage to hold multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days. -[NOTE] -You could even pull from your own repository by -giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to `git pull`. This -is useful when you want to merge a local branch (or more, if you -are making an Octopus) into the current branch. - It is likely that you will be pulling from the same remote repository from time to time. As a short hand, you can store -the remote repository URL in a file under .git/remotes/ -directory, like this: - ------------------------------------------------- -$ mkdir -p .git/remotes/ -$ cat >.git/remotes/linus <<\EOF -URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ -EOF ------------------------------------------------- - -and use the filename to `git pull` instead of the full URL. -The URL specified in such file can even be a prefix -of a full URL, like this: +the remote repository URL in the local repository's config file +like this: ------------------------------------------------ -$ cat >.git/remotes/jgarzik <<\EOF -URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/git/jgarzik/ -EOF +$ git repo-config remote.linus.url http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ ------------------------------------------------ +and use the "linus" keyword with `git pull` instead of the full URL. Examples. . `git pull linus` . `git pull linus tag v0.99.1` -. `git pull jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/ e100` the above are equivalent to: . `git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ HEAD` . `git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ tag v0.99.1` -. `git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git e100` How does the merge work? @@ -1546,7 +1526,8 @@ on that project and has an own "public repository" goes like this: 1. Prepare your work repository, by `git clone` the public repository of the "project lead". The URL used for the - initial cloning is stored in `.git/remotes/origin`. + initial cloning is stored in the remote.origin.url + configuration variable. 2. Prepare a public repository accessible to others, just like the "project lead" person does. @@ -1586,14 +1567,15 @@ like this: 1. Prepare your work repository, by `git clone` the public repository of the "project lead" (or a "subsystem maintainer", if you work on a subsystem). The URL used for - the initial cloning is stored in `.git/remotes/origin`. + the initial cloning is stored in the remote.origin.url + configuration variable. 2. Do your work in your repository on 'master' branch. 3. Run `git fetch origin` from the public repository of your upstream every once in a while. This does only the first half of `git pull` but does not merge. The head of the - public repository is stored in `.git/refs/heads/origin`. + public repository is stored in `.git/refs/remotes/origin/master`. 4. Use `git cherry origin` to see which ones of your patches were accepted, and/or use `git rebase origin` to port your @@ -1681,11 +1663,11 @@ $ git reset --hard master~2 You can make sure 'git show-branch' matches the state before those two 'git merge' you just did. Then, instead of running -two 'git merge' commands in a row, you would pull these two +two 'git merge' commands in a row, you would merge these two branch heads (this is known as 'making an Octopus'): ------------ -$ git pull . commit-fix diff-fix +$ git merge commit-fix diff-fix $ git show-branch ! [commit-fix] Fix commit message normalization. ! [diff-fix] Fix rename detection. @@ -1701,7 +1683,7 @@ $ git show-branch Note that you should not do Octopus because you can. An octopus is a valid thing to do and often makes it easier to view the -commit history if you are pulling more than two independent +commit history if you are merging more than two independent changes at the same time. However, if you have merge conflicts with any of the branches you are merging in and need to hand resolve, that is an indication that the development happened in |