So I'm having a "too much pulled" issue, that I'd like help with.
I'm working with this remote:
[remote "origin"]
url = https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
I wanted to be able to get pull requests to test and play with, and I was told
to add this line:
fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*
Which worked -- I was able to say
843 git fetch origin refs/pull/12121/head
No problem.
What was the problem? Doing an update.
keybounceMBP:youtube-dl michael$ git pull master
fatal: 'master' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
keybounceMBP:youtube-dl michael$ git pull
remote: Counting objects: 17909, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (112/112), done.
remote: Total 17909 (delta 10124), reused 10079 (delta 10078), pack-reused 7717
Receiving objects: 100% (17909/17909), 74.44 MiB | 3.01 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12988/12988), completed with 3257 local objects.
>From https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
629dc1892..b876a9cd7 gh-pages -> origin/gh-pages
a4d6cf970..3dc8b61b7 master -> origin/master
* [new ref] refs/pull/0/head -> origin/pr/0
* [new ref] refs/pull/100/head -> origin/pr/100
* [new ref] refs/pull/10011/head -> origin/pr/10011
* [new ref] refs/pull/10012/head -> origin/pr/10012
...
So, instead of updating master, like I thought, or just the one pull request I
had previously gotten (NB: those would be the only refs I had from that
github), I now have lots and lots of things I don't care about or want.
My first question is, if I just delete the files from
.git/refs/remotes/origin/pr/ that I don't want, will that result in git
cleaning up the unwanted branches?
My second question is: The only way I could manage to update master was:
keybounceMBP:youtube-dl michael$ git fetch origin master
>From https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
keybounceMBP:youtube-dl michael$ git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 12 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
(use "git pull" to update your local branch)
keybounceMBP:youtube-dl michael$ git pull
Updating a4d6cf970..3dc8b61b7
Fast-forward
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md | 6 ++---
...
So, what is the proper/best usage of fetch/pull? At the moment, I'm interested
in these branches:
origin master
origin refs/pull/12121
gkoelln Dish
And, while I did explicitly ask for pull request 12121, it did not show up in
my remotes --
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "Dish"]
remote = gkoelln
merge = refs/heads/Dish
so what do I need to do to tell git that this is something I'm interested in?
(I can be 99% certain that I'll be adding some other pull request to this
octopus at some point :-)
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