git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: lists@haller-berlin.de (Stefan Haller)
To: h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no (Hallvard B Furuseth)
Cc: gelonida@gmail.com (Gelonida N), git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: best way to fastforward all tracking branches after a fetch
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:33:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1kc5m38.m71ik21ytxkhbM%lists@haller-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbf.20111211x512@bombur.uio.no>

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> wrote:

> Stefan Haller writes:
> >Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> What is the best way to fastforward all fastforwardable tracking
> >> branches after a git fetch?
> > 
> > Here's a script that does this.  It isn't very well tested, I hope I
> > didn't miss any edge cases. Use at your own risk.
> 
> Local branches can track each other.  So the script needs to toposort
> the branches, or to loop until either nothing was done or an error
> happened.  (The latter to prevent an eternal loop on error.)

Is this just theoretical, or are there real use cases for this? What
would be a workflow with such a local tracking branch?

For me personally, the script is good enough, because I only ever have
branches that track an 'origin' branch with the same name.


-- 
Stefan Haller
Berlin, Germany
http://www.haller-berlin.de/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-10 12:26 best way to fastforward all tracking branches after a fetch Gelonida N
2011-12-11  2:22 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2011-12-11 16:17   ` Gelonida N
2011-12-11 18:22     ` Jakub Narebski
2011-12-11 18:56       ` Sitaram Chamarty
2011-12-11 19:00       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-11 19:53         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-12-11 19:58       ` Gelonida N
2011-12-11 20:30         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-11 16:27 ` Martin Langhoff
2011-12-11 20:14 ` Stefan Haller
2011-12-11 20:27   ` Gelonida N
2011-12-11 20:43     ` Martin Langhoff
2011-12-11 22:22   ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2011-12-12  7:33     ` Stefan Haller [this message]
2011-12-12  8:25       ` Jeff King
2011-12-12  9:19         ` Stefan Haller
2011-12-13 19:05       ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2011-12-12  8:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12  8:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 10:13   ` Gelonida N
2011-12-12 10:24     ` Gelonida N
2011-12-17 10:10 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2011-12-17 10:11   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2011-12-19  6:31     ` Nazri Ramliy
2012-01-18  1:50       ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-01-18  1:48   ` Sitaram Chamarty

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1kc5m38.m71ik21ytxkhbM%lists@haller-berlin.de \
    --to=lists@haller-berlin.de \
    --cc=gelonida@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).