<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> Here is what I put in my config:<br>
><br>
> [remote "patrick"]<br>
> url = git@bitbucket.org:pefarrell/petsc<br>
> fetch =<br>
> +refs/heads/pefarrell/snes-composite-get-number:refs/remotes/pefarrell/snes-composite-get-number<br>
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</span>This is rather complicated/involved if you have a lot of branches.  It's<br>
also hard to remember which branches get updated from where.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I did this precisely so that it would track exactly which branches I was pulling,</div><div>and I could remove them when they were merged.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> Then I do<br>
><br>
>   git fetch patrick<br>
><br>
> and then<br>
><br>
>   git checkout next<br>
>   git merge pefarrell/snes-composite-get-number<br>
><br>
> So does your fetch line create a local branch?<br>
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</span>Yes, it creates a local branch and then I push that local branch.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Okay, I can use that form</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">  Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">    Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div>
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