Question

I have emacs egg plugin version 1.0.0 with me. I have git 1.7.4 version installed. I would like know how to push/pull changes to/from the repository. Any idea how to do that?

Answer 1

1.0.0 means you have byplayer’s egg version, not the original one from bogolisk.

However, the latter (and older) egg wiki page mentions:

• U egg-log-buffer-push-to-remote: remote upload: update the tracking target of ref under the cursor. If the ref under the cursor wasn’t a remote tracking branch, the command will prompt for remote and target names.
• d egg-log-buffer-fetch-remote: remote download: download and update the ref under the cursor(git fetch)

Those functions are accessible through:

C-x v l: egg-log shows HEAD’s history.

With a prefix (C-u C-x v l), show history of all refs (git log).

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Make sure, though, that your git.exe is in your Emacs path (ExecPath), not just your PATH.

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To highlight what the comments are mentioning:

• A pull is a fetch + a merge (usually merging the HEAD of a remote branch — i.e. a branch fetched in the ‘remotes’ namespace — to the HEAD of the current local branch).
  So:
  • You need to browse all refs
  • Type ‘d’ on a remote branch
  • Then type ‘m’ on that same (now updated by the fetch) remote branch, in order to merge it with the the current branch.

The last two operations are what constitutes a pull: fetch + merge.