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From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: git newbie errors
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:56:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v6u1g2q.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwvaba7v.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:52:52 +0100")

On Tue, Nov 09 2010, Steinar Bang wrote:

> When we then did "git pull" we got some odd merges done into our local
> branches.  It was hard to see what had happened and hard to undo.  

What I do on my side is:

git pull --rebase

So I never merge, I just fix conflict of my local patches one by one if
needed (which is rare, except for changelog).
The history is then linear and not diamond-like, which is simpler when
you only work on small patches.

-- 
Julien Danjou
// ᐰ <julien@danjou.info>   http://julien.danjou.info



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-09 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 18:09 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-09 18:52 ` Steinar Bang
2010-11-09 18:56   ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2010-11-09 19:07     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-09 21:12       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-09 20:19   ` Francis Moreau
2010-11-09 20:36     ` Steinar Bang
2010-11-10 13:50       ` Francis Moreau
2010-11-10 14:02         ` Steinar Bang
2010-11-12  0:01           ` Greg Troxel
2010-11-10  2:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2010-11-10 17:38   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-10 17:56   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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