Re: Which freedesktop.org "design flaws" in git are still relevant?

["Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

> I wonder if it would be nice to have per-branch aliases, so that you
> could have "git update" do whatever is appropriate to update this
> particular branch, whether it be "git pull --no-commit" or "git reset
> --hard origin/next && git merge" or "git rebase".

Well, you effectively have this via
branch.*.{merge,mergeoptions,rebase,remote}. e.g.:

To effect fetch + non-committing merge:

  branch.<name>.remote        = origin
  branch.<name>.merge         = refs/heads/<name>
  branch.<name>.mergeoptions  = --no-commit

To effect fetch + rebasing:

  branch.<name>.remote        = origin
  branch.<name>.merge         = refs/heads/<name>
  branch.<name>.rebase        = true

(Not sure if there is a way to get "rebase -m" though...)

To effect reset --hard origin/next, add another fetch line to your
remote. e.g.:

  [remote "origin"]
    url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    fetch = refs/heads/pu:/refs/heads/pu-readonly

Now "git pull" does the right thing whichever branch I'm on.

j.