Re: Help with git

[David Kastrup]

Till Rettig <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I realized that I did some commits to my local copy of master, but I
> don't get the remote revisions to make a patch out of it.
> That is how I pull:
> git pull git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
>
> Obviously I forgot to name my local branch (?) -- when I call git
> show-branch, it says: [master] Merge git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond

> How can I refer to the remote branch? If I say: git rev-parse
> git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
> I get only the message that the revision is unknown, the same for
> format-patch...

Try

git rebase origin

and then you can do a git-format-patch origin afterwards (in case you
want all your commits on top of the origin).

> I don't find anything helpfull at the git documentation at the moment.

Uh, that is the basic workflow, likely described pretty much anywhere in
the tutorial.

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