From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: Pull is Evil
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 14:04:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53628CB1.8010302@xiplink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140501175623.GY6227@odin.tremily.us>
On 14-05-01 01:56 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 11:20:44AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>> On 14-05-01 05:46 AM, brian m. carlson wrote:
>>> git checkout maintenance-branch
>>> # Update our maintenance branch to the latest from the main repo.
>>> git pull --ff-only
>>> git pull --no-ff developer-remote topic-branch
>>> git push main-repo HEAD
>>
>> …
>> What's more, it seems to me that the only real advantage "git pull" provides
>> here is a less typing compared to the non-pull equivalent:
>>
>> git fetch main-repo
>> git checkout main-repo/maintenance-branch
>> git fetch developer-remote
>> git merge --no-ff developer-remote/topic-branch
>> git push main-repo HEAD
>
> You're missing Brian's fast-forward merge here. It should be:
>
> git checkout maintenance-branch
> git fetch main-repo
> git merge --ff-only main-repo/maintenance-branch
> git fetch developer-remote
> …
I think you're mistaken -- I checked out "main-repo/maintenance-branch"
directly, so there's no need to fast-forward a local branch.
>> Sure, the non-pull approach makes use of Scary Branch Stuff (remotes
>> and namespaces and detached HEADs -- oh my!).
>
> No need for detached heads with Brian's local maintenance-branch.
Yes. OTOH, no need to bother keeping a local maintenance-branch up to date
if you use a detached HEAD.
> If
> you're teaching and just need folks merging the remote's HEAD, you
> can avoid namespaces and remotes entirely:
>
> git fetch git://example.net/main-repo.git
> git merge --ff-only FETCH_HEAD
>
> although I doubt “the remote's HEAD” will be easier to explain than
> the namespaced, remote-tracking branches it replaces. It's certainly
> not worth the hassle of un-training FETCH_HEAD-merges later on ;).
Agreed. I wouldn't advocate teaching people about FETCH_HEAD as if it were
something they should use regularly.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-01 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-28 6:29 A failing attempt to use Git in a centralized environment Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 14:21 ` Pull is Evil (was: Re: A failing attempt to use Git in a centralized environment) Marc Branchaud
2014-04-30 14:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 19:45 ` Pull is Evil Marc Branchaud
2014-04-30 20:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-30 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 21:48 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-02 7:40 ` Andreas Krey
2014-05-02 8:46 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03 6:17 ` Andreas Krey
2014-05-03 6:55 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-30 20:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 22:06 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-04-30 22:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 9:46 ` brian m. carlson
2014-05-01 10:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 15:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-01 19:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 19:48 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-01 20:07 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-01 23:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 0:02 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 0:37 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 1:10 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 1:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 14:54 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 18:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 19:07 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 19:10 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 19:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 19:46 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 20:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 21:13 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 21:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:01 ` pull.prompt or other way to slow/disable 'git pull' (was: Pull is Evil) W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 22:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 0:05 ` pull.prompt or other way to slow/disable 'git pull' W. Trevor King
2014-05-03 9:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 18:51 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-04 20:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 23:20 ` Re: Pull is Evil Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 15:20 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-01 17:56 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-01 18:04 ` Marc Branchaud [this message]
2014-05-01 18:30 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-01 20:21 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-01 23:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 7:16 ` Andreas Krey
2014-05-02 8:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-01 23:45 ` brian m. carlson
2014-05-01 23:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 19:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 19:43 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-01 19:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 21:06 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-01 21:16 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-01 23:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-01 23:59 ` W. Trevor King
2014-05-02 0:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 16:47 ` Pull is Evil (was: Re: A failing attempt to use Git in a centralized environment) Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 17:09 ` Pull is Evil Matthieu Moy
2014-04-30 18:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 19:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 20:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 16:12 ` A failing attempt to use Git in a centralized environment Stepan Kasal
2014-04-30 17:15 ` Geert Bosch
2014-05-04 8:58 ` John Szakmeister
2014-05-02 20:56 ` Max Kirillov
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