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icelava
icelava

Reputation: 9857

Tell TortoiseGit to pull all of origin

I have a git repository established by TortoiseGit which pulls updates from all remote branches regardless of which branch it is locally.

git.exe pull -v --progress       "origin"

But when i copy that repository directory to another directory, and have TortoiseGit create a brand new branch, its pull command narrows its scope to just that branch.

git.exe pull -v --progress       "origin" test

I cannot find anything in TortoiseGit that controls this behaviour. What should be done to revert this configuration?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7706

Answers (2)

icelava
icelava

Reputation: 9857

I opened a Git bash console to run a general pull, and it mention the main branch for this directory is not being tracked. I do not know the difference in behaviour between TortoiseGit and raw Git.

$ git pull

remote: Counting objects: 32, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done.

remote: Total 23 (delta 19), reused 0 (delta 0)

Unpacking objects: 100% (23/23), done.

From bitbucket.org:repository

50bf7c6..a08a735 master -> origin/master

There is no tracking information for the current branch.

Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details

git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

git branch --set-upstream test origin/<branch>

So I ran the suggestion

user@MACHINE /D/Projects/test_branch (test)

$ git branch --set-upstream test origin/test

Branch test set up to track remote branch test from origin.

And after that TortoiseGit appears to now be able to pull with a broader scope.

git.exe pull -v --progress "origin"

While it has achieved what i was desiring, i do not have the fundamental understanding to properly tell why TortoiseGit behaves the way it does.

Upvotes: 1

checksum
checksum

Reputation: 6735

Are those branch being tracked?

git branch -vv

For example, if you want to track local branch test with remote branch test:

git branch -u origin/test test

Then you can perform a git pull.

Upvotes: 0

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