On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 18:24:04 (-0500) Jeff King writes:
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>...
>Maybe I don't understand what you mean by sync here, but I don't see the
>mental leap. Whenever you fetch, from whatever branch, using the
>'origin' remote, it will update all tracking branches in your local
>repository. You can then selectively do merges to any local branches
>you're working on. You _can't_ do an operation that is "for every local
>branch I have, merge the matching remote branch into my local branch".
>And I don't think you'd want to: a merge may or may not be a trivial
>thing, since it might have conflicts.
>...

A very good point, and an obvious one in retrospect.  I guess I will
be entirely satisfied if I am on branch X I can just say 'git pull'
and it will NOT pull from any other branch.  You have added to my
understanding on this, and thank you for taking the time.


Bill
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