Re: fetch and pull

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:44:31PM -0400, John Dlugosz wrote:

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You checkout master before updating it?

You cannot merge/rebase a branch unless it is checked out.

Sure you can.
	git rebase upstream topic

This literally does a "checkout" behind the scenes, so it is still
manipulating your working tree. It is basically the equivalent of:

  git checkout topic && git rebase upstream

The actual rebasing happens on a detached HEAD, but you will find at the
end of such a rebase that you are now on the branch "topic".

-Peff