Re: [orca-list] Keeping your orca git tree up to date.

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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As an occasional user of development archives such as Orca and
Speakup, I haven't really appreciated why git is so much better than
the other revision control systems out there but I thought up to now
that git-pull or 'git pull' would properly update an archive without
having to scrap and reload the whole thing each time.  What am I
missing here? Why then is git supposedly better? When I read the man
pages on git in general, there is a lot of complex stuff that goes
over my head quite easily and I would probably never use them unless I
was an archive maintainer or something.

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:20:54PM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:11:05PM EST, Jason White wrote:
> > Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> >  
> > > Git pull doesn't work the same as similar mechanisms for other vcs systems,
> > > bzr pull, svn update etc. Git pull fetches changes and attempts to merge the
> > > latest changes, thats how I understand it from reading the git pull manpage.
> >
> > What's wrong with that? It has always worked for me with projects that use
> > Git, although I haven't checked out Orca yet.
>
> I have seen git pull break for me on many occasion when attempting to update a git tree, usually seen with 
> kernel sources, and as people are seeing, git pull doesn't always properly update their working tree.
>
> If you really want to make sure your git working tree is up to date after a pull, run git reset --hard 
> origin.
>
> Luke
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