Re: Git branching & pulling

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

"Wink Saville" [off-list ref] writes:

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Could someone give me some insight or point me at a url or doc
that could shed some light on what is happening and why git-pull
doesn't work on kvm.git.

DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section of

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pull.html 

would be the place to start.  Recent git-clone (post 1.5.0, I think)
prepares the following configuration variables for you by default:

        remote.origin.url
        remote.origin.fetch
	branch.master.remote
        branch.master.merge

but repositories created by older git-clone didn't.

	/me says "oops I did not finish the sentence".

but repositories created by older git-clone didn't get these
configuration variables set.  If you set them appropriately,
taking example of your other repository (and probably you would
also want to remove .git/remotes/origin while you are at it),
you can omit saying which branch to pull from where.

I personally never understood why people would just want to say
"git pull" without saying anything else, but what described in
the DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section is how it works.