I’m working on a new project in GitHub called Bixo, and recently had to merge in a fork from Chris Wensel. After poking around on the web a bit, I found some very useful information in Willem’s blog post on Remote branches in git.
There was one minor error, though, in the “Merging back a fork” section. After the “git remote add…” command, you have to do a “git fetch <remote>” command to first fetch the remote branches before you can successfully do a “git branch <branch name> <remote/branch>” command.
So in my case, this meant:
% cd git/github/bixo % git remote add chris git://github.com/cwensel/bixo.git % git fetch chris % git branch chris-fork chris/master
And once that worked, I could merge from his branch to mine, and push back the changes.
Slowly but surely the git model accretes in my head.
May 4, 2009 at 9:16 pm |
Thanks Ken — needed to figure out how to merge my fork, worked like a charm