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From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Reject non-ff pulls by default
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:17:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522C168B.7050300@bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0kMbXvcJbWvJDu=8A5iOeH4fsMGUdT-ehXKNXiV1FQ1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 2013-09-07 22:41, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Which can be solved by adding the above "fail" option, and then
>> renaming them to "pull.integrate" and "branch.<name>.integrate" to
>> clarify what these variables are about (it is no longer "do you
>> rebase or not---if you choose not to rebase, by definition you are
>> going to merge", as there is a third choice to "fail"), while
>> retaining "pull.rebase" and "branch.<name>.rebase" as a deprecated
>> synonym.
> 
> All these names are completely unintuitive. First of all, why
> "integrate"? Integrate what to what? And then, why "fail"? Fail on
> what circumstances? Always?
> 
> My proposal that does:
> 
>   pull.mode = merge/rebase/merge-ff-only
> 
> Is way more intuitive.

+1

What about something like:

    pull.mergeoptions (defaults to --ff-only)
    pull.rebaseoptions (defaults to empty?  --preserve-merges?)
    branch.<name>.pull.mergeoptions (defaults to pull.mergeoptions)
    branch.<name>.pull.rebaseoptions (defaults to pull.rebaseoptions)

-Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-08  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-31 22:38 [PATCH 0/3] Reject non-ff pulls by default Felipe Contreras
2013-08-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] merge: simplify ff-only option Felipe Contreras
2013-08-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] t: replace pulls with merges Felipe Contreras
2013-08-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] pull: reject non-ff pulls by default Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 17:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] Reject " Junio C Hamano
2013-09-03 21:50   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-03 22:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-03 22:59       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-04  8:10       ` John Keeping
2013-09-04  9:25         ` Jeff King
2013-09-04 10:16           ` John Keeping
2013-09-08  2:52           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  4:18             ` Jeff King
2013-09-08  4:37               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  4:43                 ` Jeff King
2013-09-08  5:09                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  5:21                     ` Jeff King
2013-09-08  6:17                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  6:54                         ` Jeff King
2013-09-08  7:15                           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  7:50                             ` Jeff King
2013-09-08  8:43                               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-09 20:17                               ` Jeff King
2013-09-09 22:59                                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 10:03                           ` John Keeping
2013-09-09 20:04                             ` Jeff King
2013-09-08 17:26                 ` brian m. carlson
2013-09-08 22:38                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-09  0:01                     ` brian m. carlson
2013-09-09  0:29                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-09  0:36                         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-09  0:38                           ` brian m. carlson
2013-09-09  7:18                         ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-09 18:47                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-09 19:52                             ` Jeff King
2013-09-09 20:24                               ` John Keeping
2013-09-09 20:44                                 ` Jeff King
2013-09-09 21:10                                   ` John Keeping
2013-09-09 21:48                                   ` Richard Hansen
2013-09-09 20:50                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-09 20:53                                   ` Jeff King
2013-09-09 21:34                                     ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-09 23:02                                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-10  8:08                                   ` John Keeping
2013-09-09 20:47                             ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-10 21:56                               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-09 23:17                           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-10  8:26                             ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-11 10:53                               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-11 11:38                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-13  0:55                                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-04 16:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 17:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 22:08           ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-04 22:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05  8:06               ` John Keeping
2013-09-05 19:18                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 19:26                   ` John Keeping
2013-09-06 21:41                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-06 22:14                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-07 11:07                         ` John Keeping
2013-09-08  2:36                         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  2:34                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  8:01                   ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-08  8:16                     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  8:42                       ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-08  8:49                         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 10:02                           ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-08 10:39                             ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-05 11:01               ` John Szakmeister
2013-09-05 11:38                 ` John Keeping
2013-09-05 12:37                   ` John Szakmeister
2013-09-05 15:20               ` Richard Hansen
2013-09-05 21:30               ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-05 23:45                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 23:38               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08  2:41               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08  6:17                 ` Richard Hansen [this message]
2013-09-08 18:10                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-08 20:05                     ` Richard Hansen
2013-09-08 22:46                     ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-08 22:46                     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-08 23:11                       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-05 13:31           ` Greg Troxel

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