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From: dwh@linuxprogrammer.org
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC doc] Tracking git.git
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 07:49:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210513144930.GC11882@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4591b3bd-1f35-55cb-6eb0-be97810d6e68@gmail.com>

On 13.05.2021 20:05, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>But tracking seen is more like tracking linux-next. We do NOT use git
>pull because often doing so will try to merge origin (upstream) with
>our local version, which are divergent and most likely will end with
>conflict.  Instead, we do git fetch first followed by resetting to
>upstream by git reset --hard origin/seen.
>
>Should the fact above be documented? And on what file the fact should
>be placed? In INSTALL?

I vote yes. I was trying out tracking the different branches and got
bitten by this very situation (tons of conflicts) when pulling seen.

Cheers!
Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-13 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-13 13:05 [RFC doc] Tracking git.git Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-13 14:49 ` dwh [this message]
2021-05-13 20:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-13 22:47   ` Felipe Contreras

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