Re: merging branches remotely with git?

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Daniel,
>    If I execute...
> 
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/my-wireless-testing.git
> cd my-wireless-testing
> git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> I get the error...
> 
> You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
> want to merge with, and 'branch.master.merge' in
> your configuration file does not tell me either.

Ah, sorry. Add " master" to the end of that.

> ps Which git represents the git patches (like 2.6.26-git11) which are
> placed as patches on the www.kernel.org web page under the section
> The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is:.

Those come from the current state of the master branch of the 
...torvalds/linux-2.6 repository as of when they're made, but I don't know 
how to figure out what -git11 is, as opposed to -git10 or any of the 
commits done in between.

	-Daniel
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