Yeh I use Git checkout -b somebranch name remotes/REMOTENAME/REMOTEBRANCH
On 10/10/12 12:24 PM, "Michal Mocny" <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: >I was surprised that those instructions worked until I read what git >checkout NAME/branch does. > >I found this: >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1783405/git-checkout-remote-branch >which >advises the syntax: > >git checkout -b branch NAME/branch > >which saves one command, I think. > >Either way, I am not sure how to avoid adding the remote in the first >place. > > >On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> >wrote: > >> Interesting point you bring up. >> >> According to: >> >> >>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12296255/git-pull-rebase-changes-the-c >>ommiter-name-to-my-name >> >> Doing a rebase will update the committer field. I like to do these >>anyways >> since it will avoid the extra "Merge blah blah" commit in the history. >> >> I don't know how to do this without using a remote though... >> git remote add NAME URL >> git checkout NAME/branch >> git checkout -b mybranch >> git rebase master >> git checkout master >> git merge --ff-only mybranch >> git push apache master >> >> Anyone else have ideas? >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Patrick Mueller <pmue...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Patrick Mueller <pmue...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > wops. Made a boo-boo. >> > > >> > > >> > Another interesting tidbit - the email on the commits list was >>addressed >> as >> > from me, which is helpful. And confusing, I guess. :-) >> > >> > http://markmail.org/message/rvt2sm6pszgbtpli >> > >> > -- >> > Patrick Mueller >> > http://muellerware.org >> > >>
