linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

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Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:14:41 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	arjan@...radead.org, greg@...ah.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So let's say that you have a remote branch that you track that goes 
> rebasing (let's call it "origin/pu" to match the real-life git behaviour), 
> then you should literally be able to do
> 
> 	old=$(git rev-parse origin/pu)	&&
> 	git fetch			&&
> 	new=$(git rev-parse origin/pu)	&&
> 	git rebase --onto $new $old
> 
> and no, I didn't actually test it, but hey, it really should be that 
> simple.

Or, with Git 1.5.4, just:

	git pull --rebase

And I didn't test it yet either.  Same caveats do apply.


Nicolas
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