[HOWTO] Using git for mtd (v3)

[Jörn Engel]

On Sun, 23 April 2006 08:05:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > 4. Fetch mtd tree
> >
> >   $ git fetch mtd
> 
> Does that really do what you want though?  It will fetch the objects
> from the mtd-2.6 tree, but it doesn't merge them into your local tree
> from what I remember.  So to actually get the changes into the source,
> you'd have to do 'git fetch mtd'; 'git merge', no?

That doesn't do a merge, correct.  I was told that a merge is to be
avoided at all costs.  What it does is create a branch that i switch
to in step 5.

Jörn

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