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From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
To: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>
Cc: git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new to git
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:56:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905055659.GF3786@efreet.light.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D32973.8030104@krose.org>

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 15:43:47 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
> After many years of dissatisfaction with the limitations of CVS, and
> after getting fed up with the complexity of configuring and maintaining
> a SVN setup, I just started using git for my own personal projects.  I
> have to say it's quite nice and fits the UNIX philosophy well: fast,
> simple, powerful.
> 
> I've been playing with it for a few weeks and generally understand what
> is going on, but I do have a few usage questions that I couldn't find
> answered in the docs:
> 
> (1) Let's say I:
> 
> git clone something
> git branch foo
> git checkout foo
> <make some changes>
> git commit -a
> git checkout master
> git pull . foo

git merge foo

would be probably both clearer about the intent and more efficient here.
After all, pull is just a simple wrapper for fetch + merge and you don't need
the fetch from the repository to itself.

> git push
> git pull

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-05  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-27 19:43 new to git Kyle Rose
2007-08-27 20:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-27 20:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-27 20:36   ` Kyle Rose
2007-08-27 20:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-27 21:14     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-05  5:56 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
2007-09-05  6:54 ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-08 19:43 New " Marco Maggesi
2011-04-08 20:10 ` Jeff King
2011-04-09 19:15   ` Marco Maggesi
2011-04-09 19:35     ` Dmitry Potapov
2011-04-09 22:41     ` Matthieu Moy

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