[git-users] [newbie] convenience function: overwrite from remote?

2012-05-07 Thread Tom Roche
How to just overwrite managed files in an existing directory with the latest versions from a remote branch/repo, without merging or whack-n-clone? What I mean: As previously noted https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/git-users/kjNzSHA12bI I'm attempting to shepherd a group from

[git-users] Re: [newbie] convenience function: overwrite from remote?

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Hi Tom, I'm afraid I don't really understand the use-case here, or what these clusters are about. But it sounds like multiple users have to share one work tree (meaning non-bare) repository. Am I right? While this sounds like highly unusual workflow (usually people have their own separate repo

[git-users] Re: [newbie] convenience function: overwrite from remote?

2012-05-07 Thread Peter J Weisberg
On Monday, May 7, 2012 10:09:29 AM UTC-7, Tom Roche wrote: > > > How to just overwrite managed files in an existing directory with the > latest versions from a remote branch/repo, without merging or > whack-n-clone? What I mean: > > As previously noted > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromg