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=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:02:21 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <200611201944.kAKJiCAw014973@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 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 1GmFKZ-0003Ia-GX for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:01:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966620AbWKTUBL (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:01:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966603AbWKTUBK (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:01:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:63400 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966610AbWKTUBJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:01:09 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GmFK5-0003BC-62 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:00:57 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:00:57 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:00:57 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Horst H. von Brand wrote: > 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". That was only the _pull_ which didn't work in empty repo. Fetch and push worked (and work) just fine with empty repo. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git