From: Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 20:30:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4n119wgk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
>
> No. This is most often true for people who use a single repository as a
> place for everybody to meet, in the same way as SVN.
[snip lots of excellent detail]
> HTH.
Wow. That helps tremendously, and should be incorporated somewhere in the
Git documentation. Thank you for your immensely detailed response.
Apologies about not breaking lines... I'll remember that in future.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-07 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 15:40 Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil" Jim Garrison
2014-05-07 16:20 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-07 17:04 ` Jeff King
2014-05-07 20:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 20:30 ` Jim Garrison [this message]
2014-05-07 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 0:45 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2014-05-09 6:08 ` [PATCH] How to keep a project's canonical history correct Stephen P. Smith
2014-05-09 13:41 ` Stephen Smith
2014-05-09 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-10 4:01 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
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