Re: Upgrading from old version (13.0-RELEASE-p4)
- In reply to: Graham Perrin : "Re: Upgrading from old version (13.0-RELEASE-p4)"
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:37:14 UTC
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 9:05 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 22/09/2023 00:54, Eduardo Lemos de Sa wrote:
> > 6) …
> >
> > For future upgrades, I suggest:
> > cd /usr/src
> > git pull
> > followed by steps 4, 5, and so on...
> >
> > …
> >
> I'd use --ff-only for the pull.
>
The git documentation for the pull command claims that --ff-only is the
default. Is that incorrect? From "man git-pull":
--ff-only
Only update to the new history if there is no divergent local
history. This is the default when no method for reconciling
divergent histories is provided (via the --rebase=* flags).
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