On Wed, 15 May 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes: > > > Looks like 'git pull' might not work for a detached head. Is there an > > easy way to also have 'git pull' work? > > That's why I wrote 'git fetch origin'. That suggestion was for a > script, not for a user. > > > You can use a fully-qualified pull from a detached head, but it doesn't > have an implicit upstream.
pushed 'balay/scripts-use-git-detached-head' to be merged into 'maint' and 'master' thanks, Satish
