From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Horst H. von Brand" Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:44:12 -0300 Message-ID: <200611201944.kAKJiCAw014973@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> References: NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hanwen@xs4all.nl, git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: Message from Junio C Hamano of "Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:47:31 -0800." <7vslgjaa0c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.5 (beta27) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.19.1]); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:44:13 -0300 (CLST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.5, clamav-milter version 0.88.5 on inti.inf.utfsm.cl X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmF44-0007FS-U1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:44:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966573AbWKTToU (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:44:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966579AbWKTToU (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:44:20 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:27093 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966573AbWKTToT (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:44:19 -0500 Received: from laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl (laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.19.201]) by inti.inf.utfsm.cl (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAKJiDiO005674 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:44:13 -0300 Received: from laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl (laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl [127.0.0.1]) by laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAKJiCAw014973; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:44:12 -0300 To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > > > >> [hanwen@haring y]$ git pull ../x > >> fatal: Needed a single revision > >> Pulling into a black hole? > > Having said all that, I happen to think that this particular > case of pulling into void could deserve to be special cased to > pretend it is a fast forward (after all, nothingness is an > ancestor of anything), if only to make new people's first > experience more pleasant. If you make pushing into an empty repository work also, you fix the case of "create an empty repo for somebody, let them fill it up remotely later". [...] > So please consider that this is classified as a bug. Thanks! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239