From: Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 17:45:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1484962.u3Uah1apFn@thunderbird> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET
I'll create a patch.
On Wednesday, May 07, 2014 01:51:04 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org> writes:
>
> >> -----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.
>
> We used to collect useful list postings in Documentation/howto/;
> perhaps somebody wants to do the minimum copyediting of the message
> and send a patch?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 1:25 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
2014-05-07 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 0:45 ` Stephen & Linda Smith [this message]
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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