Re: git pull/merge master on other branch

Kevin Ballard wrote, at 5/10/2008 2:16 AM:
 > On May 9, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Johan Herland wrote:
 >
 >> On Friday 09 May 2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:
 >>> Hello,
 >>>
 >>> If I am on a branch (reguarly rebased), I don't want to switch to
 >>> master branch, but merge origin into master.
 >>> If I switch to master and pull and switch to branch, I have to
 >>> rebuild almost of sources.
 >>>
 >>> How I can pull origin into master without switching to master
 >>> branch?
 >>
 >> You can't; merging requires use of the working tree (to resolve
 >> conflicts).
 >>
 >> However, what you can do is make a local clone of your project (cheap,
 >> because it just hardlinks files from the original repo), and 
checkout the
 >> master branch in the clone, perform the merge (after having set up the
 >> same
 >> origin and retrieved its contents), and then fetch (or push) the
 >> result back
 >> into the original repo (remember: "fetch" instead of "pull", since the
 >> latter will initiate a merge with your current branch).
 >
 >
 > If you know the pull will just be a fast-foward, then you can do
 > something like
 >
 >   git fetch origin && git update-ref master origin/master

It seems it worked, but I see a warning message "refname 'master'
is ambiguous." Can I fix this warning message?

[test] ~/tmp/t[52]$ git fetch origin
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
 From /d/user/namsh/tmp/repo/
    6e13bb5..8d1c620  master     -> origin/master
[test] ~/tmp/t[53]$ git update-ref master origin/master
[test] ~/tmp/t[69]$ git log master
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
commit a358783b78facffb9a8f69d2189aa716495d95ba
..

[test] ~/tmp/t[54]$ git rebase master
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Fast-forwarded test to master.

regards,
namsh