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Jeff King 29609e6822 pull: do nothing on --dry-run
Pull was never meant to take --dry-run at all. However, it
passes unknown arguments to git-fetch, which does do a
dry-run. Unfortunately, pull then attempts to merge whatever
cruft was in FETCH_HEAD (which the dry-run fetch will not
have written to).

Even though we never advertise --dry-run as something that
should work, it is still worth being defensive because:

  1. Other commands (including fetch) take --dry-run, so a
     user might try it.

  2. Rather than simply producing an error, it actually
     changes the repository in totally unexpected ways.

This patch makes "pull --dry-run" equivalent to "fetch
--dry-run".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-25 10:49:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 96203bb074 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.0.3
  fetch: Fix minor memory leak
  fetch: Future-proof initialization of a refspec on stack
  fetch: Check for a "^{}" suffix with suffixcmp()
  daemon: parse_host_and_port SIGSEGV if port is specified
  Makefile: Fix CDPATH problem
  pull: replace unnecessary sed invocation
2010-03-20 11:29:19 -07:00
Stephen Boyd 0d12e59f63 pull: replace unnecessary sed invocation
Getting the shortened branch name is as easy as using the shell's
parameter expansion.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-20 07:25:02 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan 9839018e87 fetch and pull: learn --progress
Note that in the documentation for git-pull, documentation for the
--progress option is displayed under the "Options related to fetching"
subtitle via fetch-options.txt.

Also, update the documentation of the -q/--quiet option for git-pull to
mention its effect on progress reporting during fetching.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24 08:35:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 7ecee3314f pull: re-fix command line generation
14e5d40 (pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>, 2010-01-17) forgot that
merge_name needs to stay as a single non-interpolated string.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 10:11:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano fcb2a7e4a3 Merge branch 'ap/merge-backend-opts'
* ap/merge-backend-opts:
  Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
  Extend merge-subtree tests to test -Xsubtree=dir.
  Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-recursive.
  pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>
  Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
  git merge -X<option>
  git-merge-file --ours, --theirs

Conflicts:
	git-compat-util.h
2010-01-20 20:28:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 14e5d40ca4 pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>
As -X parameter can contain arbitrary $IFS characters, we need to
properly quote it from the shell while forming the command line.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-17 22:46:27 -08:00
Avery Pennarun ee2c79552a Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
This needs the usual sq then eval trick to allow IFS characters
in the option.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-17 22:45:17 -08:00
Matthieu Moy d38a30df7d Be more user-friendly when refusing to do something because of conflict.
Various commands refuse to run in the presence of conflicts (commit,
merge, pull, cherry-pick/revert). They all used to provide rough, and
inconsistant error messages.

A new variable advice.resolveconflict is introduced, and allows more
verbose messages, pointing the user to the appropriate solution.

For commit, the error message used to look like this:

$ git commit
foo.txt: needs merge
foo.txt: unmerged (c34a92682e0394bc0d6f4d4a67a8e2d32395c169)
foo.txt: unmerged (3afcd75de8de0bb5076942fcb17446be50451030)
foo.txt: unmerged (c9785d77b76dfe4fb038bf927ee518f6ae45ede4)
error: Error building trees

The "need merge" line is given by refresh_cache. We add the IN_PORCELAIN
option to make the output more consistant with the other porcelain
commands, and catch the error in return, to stop with a clean error
message. The next lines were displayed by a call to cache_tree_update(),
which is not reached anymore if we noticed the conflict.

The new output looks like:

U       foo.txt
fatal: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
Please, fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as
appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit, or use 'git commit -a'.

Pull is slightly modified to abort immediately if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD
exists instead of waiting for merge to complain.

The behavior of merge and the test-case are slightly modified to reflect
the usual flow: start with conflicts, fix them, and afterwards get rid of
MERGE_HEAD, with different error messages at each stage.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-12 13:17:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ff86bdd5ca Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  add-interactive: fix deletion of non-empty files
  pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case
2009-12-08 22:47:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 77c29b4aca Revert recent "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." deprecation
This reverts commit c0ecb07048 "git-pull.sh:
Fix call to git-merge for new command format" and

commit b81e00a965 "git-merge: a deprecation
notice of the ancient command line syntax".

They caused a "git pull" (without any arguments, and without any local
commits---only to update to the other side) to warn that commit log
message is ignored because the merge resulted in a fast-forward.

Another possible solution is to add an extra option to "git merge" so that
"git pull" can tell it that the message given is not coming from the end
user (the canned message is passed just in case the merge resulted in a
non-ff and caused commit), but I think it is easier _not_ to deprecate the
old syntax.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-08 15:26:39 -08:00
Jan Krüger 995fc2f7e1 pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case
When pull --rebase fails because it cannot find what branch to
merge against, the error message implies we are trying to merge.
Say "rebase against" instead of "merge with" to avoid confusion.

The configuration suggested to remedy the situation uses a
confusing syntax, with variables specified in the dotted form
accepted by 'git config' but separated from their values by the
'=' delimiter used by config files.  Since the user will have to
edit this output anyway, it is more helpful to provide a config
file snippet to paste into an editor and modify.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 10:04:27 -08:00
Horst H. von Brand c0ecb07048 git-pull.sh: Fix call to git-merge for new command format
Now "git merge <msg> HEAD" is officially deprecated, we should
clean our own use as well.

Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-02 10:42:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4d8c325888 Merge branch 'fc/doc-fast-forward'
* fc/doc-fast-forward:
  Use 'fast-forward' all over the place

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge.c
2009-11-15 16:41:02 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson 134748353b Teach 'git merge' and 'git pull' the option --ff-only
For convenience in scripts and aliases, add the option
--ff-only to only allow fast-forwards (and up-to-date,
despite the name).

Disallow combining --ff-only and --no-ff, since they
flatly contradict each other.

Allow all other options to be combined with --ff-only
(i.e. do not add any code to handle them specially),
including the following options:

* --strategy (one or more): As long as the chosen merge
  strategy results in up-to-date or fast-forward, the
  command will succeed.

* --squash: I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
  squash commits only if fast-forward is possible, but I
  also see no reason why it should not be allowed.

* --message: The message will always be ignored, but I see
  no need to explicitly disallow providing a redundant message.

Acknowledgements: I did look at Yuval Kogman's earlier
patch (107768 in gmane), mainly as shortcut to find my
way in the code, but I did not copy anything directly.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-30 16:02:26 -07:00
Felipe Contreras a75d7b5409 Use 'fast-forward' all over the place
It's a compound word.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24 23:50:28 -07:00
Jeff King a8c9bef4e0 pull: improve advice for unconfigured error case
There are several reasons a git-pull invocation might not
have anything marked for merge:

  1. We're not on a branch, so there is no branch
     configuration.

  2. We're on a branch, but there is no configuration for
     this branch.

  3. We fetched from the configured remote, but the
     configured branch to merge didn't get fetched (either
     it doesn't exist, or wasn't part of the fetch refspec).

  4. We fetched from the non-default remote, but didn't
     specify a branch to merge. We can't use the configured
     one because it applies to the default remote.

  5. We fetched from a specified remote, and a refspec was
     given, but it ended up not fetching anything (this is
     actually hard to do; if the refspec points to a remote
     branch and it doesn't exist, then fetch will fail and
     we never make it to this code path. But if you provide
     a wildcard refspec like

       refs/bogus/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

     then you can see this failure).

We have handled (1) and (2) for some time. Recently, commit
a6dbf88 added code to handle case (3).

This patch handles cases (4) and (5), which previously just
fell under other cases, producing a confusing message.

While we're at it, let's rewrap the text for case (3), which
looks terribly ugly as it is.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09 11:22:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4973aa2286 git-pull: dead code removal
Back when a74b170 (git-pull: disallow implicit merging to detached HEAD,
2007-01-15) added this check, $? referred to the error status of reading
HEAD as a symbolic-ref; but cd67e4d (Teach 'git pull' about --rebase,
2007-11-28) moved the command away from where the check is, and nobody
noticed the breakage.  Ever since, $? has always been 0 (tr at the end of
the pipe to find merge_head never fails) and other case arms were never
reached.

These days, error_on_no_merge_candidates function is prepared to handle a
detached HEAD case, which was what the code this patch removes used to
handle.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-05 12:03:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a6dbf8814f pull: Clarify "helpful" message for another corner case
When the remote branch we asked for merging did not exist in the set of
fetched refs, we unconditionally hinted that it was because of lack of
configuration.  It is not necessarily so, and risks sending users for a
wild goose chase.

Make sure to check if that is indeed the case before telling a wild guess
to the user.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-22 22:26:27 -07:00
Jeff King 19a7fcbf16 allow pull --rebase on branch yet to be born
When doing a "pull --rebase", we check to make sure that the index and
working tree are clean. The index-clean check compares the index against
HEAD. The test erroneously reports dirtiness if we don't have a HEAD yet.

In such an "unborn branch" case, by definition, a non-empty index won't
be based on whatever we are pulling down from the remote, and will lose
the local change.  Just check if $GIT_DIR/index exists and error out.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 15:50:09 -07:00
Santi Béjar d44e71261f pull: support rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase
You cannot do a "git pull --rebase" with a rebased upstream, if you have
already run "git fetch".  Try to behave as if the "git fetch" was not run.

In other words, find the fork point of the current branch, where
the tip of upstream branch used to be, and use it as the upstream
parameter of "git rebase".

This patch computes the fork point by walking the reflog to find the first
commit which is an ancestor of the current branch.  Maybe there are
smarter ways to compute it, but this is a straight forward implementation.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-19 10:29:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 12d4ffaa94 Merge branch 'sb/pull-rebase'
* sb/pull-rebase:
  parse-remote: remove unused functions
  parse-remote: support default reflist in get_remote_merge_branch
  parse-remote: function to get the tracking branch to be merge
2009-06-20 21:47:13 -07:00
Stephen Boyd bc2bbc4542 pull, rebase: simplify to use die()
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-14 21:14:10 -07:00
Santi Béjar 97af7ff055 parse-remote: function to get the tracking branch to be merge
The only user of get_remote_refs_for_fetch was "git pull --rebase" and
it only wanted the tracking branch to be merge. So, add a simple
function (get_remote_merge_branch) with this new meaning.

No behavior changes. The new function behaves like the old code in
"git pull --rebase". In particular, it only works with the default
refspec mapping and with remote branches, not tags.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-11 19:49:59 -07:00
Dan Loewenherz 7bd93c1c62 Convert to use quiet option when available
A minor fix that eliminates usage of "2>/dev/null" when --quiet or
-q has already been implemented.

Signed-off-by: Dan Loewenherz <daniel.loewenherz@yale.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-22 19:05:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 796b13781a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Start 1.6.2.3 preparation
  process_{tree,blob}: Remove useless xstrdup calls
  git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
2009-04-08 23:47:23 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 61e6108d94 git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.
Otherwise, git complains about not finding a branch to pull from in
'branch..merge', which is hardly understandable. While we're there,
reword the sentences slightly.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-08 00:39:51 -07:00
Tor Arne Vestbø a334e1254c git-pull: Allow --stat and --no-stat to be used with --rebase
Forwards the --stat, --no-stat, and --summary options on to git-rebase.

Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-02 23:22:54 -08:00
Jay Soffian 51b2ead03c disallow providing multiple upstream branches to rebase, pull --rebase
It does not make sense to provide multiple upstream branches to either
git pull --rebase, or to git rebase, so disallow both.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-18 11:14:04 -08:00
Miklos Vajna 2d17985782 pull: use git rev-parse -q
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-03 14:27:17 -08:00
Tuncer Ayaz c6576f912f Retain multiple -q/-v occurrences in git pull
To support counting -q/-v options in git pull retain
them by concatenating.

Signed-off-by: Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18 16:10:05 -08:00
Tuncer Ayaz 7f87aff22c Teach/Fix pull/fetch -q/-v options
Implement git-pull --quiet and git-pull --verbose by
adding the options to git-pull and fixing verbosity
handling in git-fetch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14 17:18:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano b0ad11ea16 pull: allow "git pull origin $something:$current_branch" into an unborn branch
Some misguided documents floating on the Net suggest this sequence:

    mkdir newdir && cd newdir
    git init
    git remote add origin $url
    git pull origin master:master

"git pull" has known about misguided "pull" that lets the underlying fetch
update the current branch for a long time.  It also has known about
"git pull origin master" into a branch yet to be born.

These two workarounds however were not aware of the existence of each
other and did not work well together.  This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-17 11:26:20 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 7d90c8ee15 Ignore dirty submodule states in "git pull --rebase"
This is a companion patch to 6848d58c(Ignore dirty submodule states
during rebase and stash).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-23 11:36:56 -07:00
Stephan Beyer 1b1dd23f2d Make usage strings dash-less
When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string.
But this is currently shown in the dashed form.  So if you just
copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form
is no longer supported.

This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version.

For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh
generates a dash-less usage string now.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13 14:12:48 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin f9189cf8f2 pull --rebase: exit early when the working directory is dirty
When rebasing fails during "pull --rebase", you cannot just clean up the
working directory and call "pull --rebase" again, since the remote branch
was already fetched.

Therefore, die early when the working directory is dirty.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-22 23:05:11 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor efb779f887 merge, pull: add '--(no-)log' command line option
These are the command line option equivalents of the 'merge.log' config
variable.

The patch also updates documentation and bash completion accordingly, and
adds a test.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-12 19:28:18 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor d8abe148be merge, pull: introduce '--(no-)stat' option
This option has the same effect as '--(no-)summary' (i.e. whether to
show a diffsat at the end of the merge or not), and it is consistent
with the '--stat' option of other git commands.

Documentation, tests, and bash completion are updaed accordingly, and the
old --summary option is marked as being deprected.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-12 19:28:18 -07:00
Jay Soffian 0d2dd191cd pull: pass --strategy along to to rebase
rebase supports --strategy, so pull should pass the option along to it.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-22 21:44:46 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin c85c79279d pull --rebase: be cleverer with rebased upstream branches
When the upstream branch is tracked, we can detect if that branch
was rebased since it was last fetched.  Teach git to use that
information to rebase from the old remote head onto the new remote head.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-26 18:24:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 441ed4131b "git pull --tags": error out with a better message.
When "git pull --tags" is run without any other arguments, the
standard error message "You told me to fetch and merge stuff but
there is nothing to merge!  You might want to fix your config"
is given.

While the error may be technically correct, fixing the config
would not help, as "git pull --tags" itself tells "git fetch"
not to use the configured refspecs.

This commit makes "git pull --tags" to issue a different error
message to avoid confusion.  This is merely an interim solution.

In the longer term, it would be a better approach to change the
semantics of --tags option to make "git fetch" and "git pull"
to:

 (1) behave as if no --tags was given (so an explicit refspec on
     the command line overrides configured ones, or no explicit
     refspecs on the command line takes configured ones); but

 (2) no auto-following of tags is made even when using
     configured refspecs; and

 (3) fetch all tags as not-for-merge entries".

Then we would not need to have this separate error message, as
the ordinary merge will happen even with the --tags option.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-28 21:01:24 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin cd67e4d46b Teach 'git pull' about --rebase
When calling 'git pull' with the '--rebase' option, it performs a
fetch + rebase instead of a fetch + merge.

This behavior is more desirable than fetch + pull when a topic branch
is ready to be submitted and needs to be update.

fetch + rebase might also be considered a better workflow with shared
repositories in any case, or for contributors to a centrally managed
repository, such as WINE's.

As a convenience, you can set the default behavior for a branch by
defining the config variable branch.<name>.rebase, which is
interpreted as a bool.  This setting can be overridden on the command
line by --rebase and --no-rebase.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-28 17:32:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 8f321a3925 scripts: Add placeholders for OPTIONS_SPEC
--text follows this line--
These commands currently lack OPTIONS_SPEC; allow people to
easily list with "git grep 'OPTIONS_SPEC=$'" what they can help
improving.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-06 01:50:02 -08:00
Lars Hjemli 5072a32382 Teach git-pull about --[no-]ff, --no-squash and --commit
These options are supported by git-merge, but git-pull didn't know about
them.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-29 13:32:52 -07:00
Federico Mena Quintero 8fc293cb1e Make git-pull complain and give advice when there is nothing to merge with
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-02 17:27:48 -07:00
David Kastrup 822f7c7349 Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom
A lot of shell scripts contained stuff starting with

	while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac

and similar.  I consider breaking out of the condition instead of the
body od the loop ugly, and the implied "true" value of the
non-matching case is not really obvious to humans at first glance.  It
happens not to be obvious to some BSD shells, either, but that's
because they are not POSIX-compliant.  In most cases, this has been
replaced by a straight condition using "test".  "case" has the
advantage of being faster than "test" on vintage shells where "test"
is not a builtin.  Since none of them is likely to run the git
scripts, anyway, the added readability should be worth the change.

A few loops have had their termination condition expressed
differently.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-23 16:12:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5be60078c9 Rewrite "git-frotz" to "git frotz"
This uses the remove-dashes target to replace "git-frotz" to "git frotz".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 22:52:14 -07:00
Alex Riesen 51e7ecf4ec Add a configuration option to control diffstat after merge
The diffstat can be controlled either with command-line options
(--summary|--no-summary) or with merge.diffstat. The default is
left as it was: diffstat is active by default.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-24 21:37:08 -07:00
Jeff King a74b1706c8 git-pull: disallow implicit merging to detached HEAD
Instead, we complain to the user and suggest that they explicitly
specify the remote and branch. We depend on the exit status of
git-symbolic-ref, so let's go ahead and document that.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-15 15:37:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 533b70390e Allow whole-tree operations to be started from a subdirectory
This updates five commands (merge, pull, rebase, revert and cherry-pick)
so that they can be started from a subdirectory.

This may not actually be what we want to do.  These commands are
inherently whole-tree operations, and an inexperienced user may
mistakenly expect a "git pull" from a subdirectory would merge
only the subdirectory the command started from.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12 16:54:38 -08:00