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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] winsup/doc/dll.xml: update MinGW/.org to MinGW-w64/.org
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:19:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70c973ec-f8c7-f5cc-1d38-f0306b8521c2@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn098s1j.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On 2021-03-08 10:38, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Brian Inglis writes:
>> Thanks - I'll try to remember to try that - on a pull conflict I
>> normally try to checkout -- file(s), then -f, then origin/master, then
>> plus -f, with status checks between, then commit -m merge when
>> required, and re-pull origin/master to check resynced to upstream
>> remote.
> 
> git status
> 
> That usually tells you what it is that prevents pulling.  Aside from
> that, you can always do

It's normally a merge conflict which will not be satisfied by regular commands 
to restore the working files to upstream.

> git remote update
> 
> to get the objects and then figure out how to pull the branch.

Thanks for that last tip which is the first I have heard of that command.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-08 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-07 16:31 Brian Inglis
2021-03-07 19:15 ` Jon Turney
2021-03-07 20:26   ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-08 10:14     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-03-08 17:32       ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-08 17:38         ` Achim Gratz
2021-03-08 18:19           ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2021-03-08 19:09             ` Achim Gratz
2021-03-08 20:20               ` Ken Brown
2021-03-08 20:52                 ` ASSI
2021-03-08 20:55                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-03-09  6:08                   ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-08 10:13   ` Corinna Vinschen

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