Re: Question about "git pull --rebase"

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Johan 't Hart [off-list ref] wrote:

This does not update any remote tracking branches, but it will rebase your
foo branch on the remote master branch (which is what you want)
It could also be done with:

git pull --rebase origin master:origin/master

This will also update your remote tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/master
to match the master branch on the remote repo. Your foo branch will then be
rebased onto it.

BTW, this seems to be not exact.

$ git pull --rebase origin master:origin/master

fetches the 'master' branch on the remote repo, then creates a new
branch 'origin/master', which is updated with the fetched branch.

To update the remote tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/master, I
need to issue:

$ git pull --rebase origin master:remotes/origin/master

BTW2,  it looks like if the <dst> local ref doesn't exist the it will
be created. This something that appears very lately in the man page
(actually I can see the information only in the last example). This
could be part of the <refspec> defintion.

Thanks
-- 
Francis