Re: New XFS git tree on oss.sgi.com

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:20:04AM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
>   
> > The problem is that you have a tracking branch for xfs-dev so git wants 
> > to leave your branch untouched
> > until you actually want to update it from the remote branch origin/xfs-dev
> > What you can do is:
> > % git-fetch
> > % git-pull . xfs-dev
> >
> > That will pull the latest xfs-dev stuff into your current branch.
> >     
> It might.  But remember more than a single command to update a
> repository is just a braindead design.  Especially if I have to remember
> a branch name.  Even CVS got this right..
>
>   
Agreed,  I'm not going to defend git cmds, frankly I find most of them 
confusing
and poorly documented. It seems like the only way to figured this stuff 
out is
read as many howto's as possible and then make some swags.

What I did was clone the tree and then have my "master" branch track 
origin/xfs-dev
vs origin/master. That way I can just do git-pulls and have an to date 
xfs-dev tree.
-Russell