Re: Pull is Evil

["W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>]

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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:55:36PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> W. Trevor King wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:14:29PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > > W. Trevor King wrote:
> > > > My proposed --prompt behavior is for folks who think “I often run
> > > > this command without thinking it through all the way.  I'm also
> > > > not used to reading Git's output and using 'reset --hard' with the
> > > > reflog to reverse changes.  Instead of trusting me to only say
> > > > what I mean or leaving me to recover from mistakes, please tell me
> > > > what's about to change and let me opt out if I've changed my
> > > > mind.”
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately those folks by definition wouldn't know about the
> > > --prompt option.
> > 
> > But once such folks are identified, you just have to convince them
> > (once) to set the pull.prompt config.  That's a lot easier than
> > convincing them (for every pull) to set the appropriate ff flag.
> 
> It wouldn't matter if by the default non-fast-forward merges are
> rejected.

It would matter if you didn't want them making non-fast-forward merges
(e.g. for explicitly-merged topic branches).

Cheers,
Trevor

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