doubt with git and linux-next

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Jul 25 13:30:06 EDT 2014


On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:36:26 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee said:
> Hi,
> I am having some doubt regarding git and how to sync my local copy
> with linux-next. I have cloned it and the next day if I want to sync
> my master with linux-next , i am using :
> git remote update
> git pull master

git pull won't work the way you want on linux-next because of the way
it's built.

You want to do:

git clone   linus's tree
git remote add      linux-next tree

then to update, 'git remote update' instead of 'git pull'
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