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-commiter-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 > > >
