Re: git pull on Linux/ACPI release tree

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 14:32:36 EST


Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 1/9/06, Brown, Len <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Perhaps the tools should try to support what "a lot of people"
>> expect, rather than making "a lot of people" do extra work
>> because of the tools?
>
> I think it does. All the tricky stuff that David and Junio have been
> discussing is actually done very transparently by
>
> git-rebase <upstream>
>
> Now, git-rebase uses git-format-patch <options> | git-am <options> so
> it sometimes has problems merging.

Careful. I do not think rebase works across merges at all.

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