You are right. You can edit the config (.git/config) to set it up once for all and this is answered for example in
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/658885/how-do-you-get-git-to-always-pull-from-a-specific-branch 2014-05-01 14:27 UTC+02:00, Kannappan Sampath <kntri...@gmail.com>: > But everytime I need to update, I will have to do > > $ git pull trac develop > > while if I set the "default remote branch" to trac/develop or something > like that, I could just say: > > $ git pull > > while in the branch, right? > > Am I missing something, in that, there is something called tracking a > remote branch as described in "Tracking Branches" section here: > http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Remote-Branches? > > With Sincere Regards, > Kannappan. > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Vincent Delecroix > <20100.delecr...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> Of course, I assumed that you have trac declared as a remote git >> server. You can check that with >> >> $ git remote -v >> trac g...@trac.sagemath.org:sage.git (fetch) >> trac g...@trac.sagemath.org:sage.git (push) >> >> 2014-05-01 12:29 UTC+02:00, Vincent Delecroix >> <20100.delecr...@gmail.com>: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Be sure that you are in your develop branch on your machine. Then do >> > >> > $ git pull trac develop >> > >> > Or alternatively >> > >> > $ git fetch trac develop >> > $ git merge FETCH_HEAD >> > >> > That way your local branch get updated with the one on trac. >> > >> > Vincent >> > >> > 2014-05-01 12:26 UTC+02:00, Kannappan Sampath <kntri...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hello sage-devel: >> >> >> >> Nathann has kindly helped me a lot making me feel at home with >> >> git+sage >> >> stuff. I have one problem facing me. I have a local "develop" branch. >> >> I >> >> would like that to track the remote trac's develop branch... >> >> >> >> How do I do this? >> >> >> >> With Sincere regards, >> >> Kannappan. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "sage-devel" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
