From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 14:05:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5363ec734572a_70ef0f30cdc@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C439C0C76DA44AB5AAC91E7C0D2991BA@PhilipOakley>
Philip Oakley wrote:
> From: "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>
> > Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
> >
> >> To that end, I suggest that pull's default behaviour should be to do
> >> *nothing*. It should just print out a message to the effect that it
> >> hasn't been configured, and that the user should run "git help pull"
> >> for guidance.
> >
> > Fetching is uncontentious, and I _think_ that fast-forwards are pretty
> > uncontentious as well.
>
> While the fast forward is /pretty/ uncontentious, it still maybe
> contentious for some.
So? No defaults can please absolutely everyone, the best anybody can do
is try to please the majority of people, and merging fast-forwards only
does that.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-02 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-02 15:37 Pull is Mostly Evil Marc Branchaud
2014-05-02 15:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 16:05 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 19:05 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-05-02 22:34 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 22:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-03 20:24 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-02 23:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 11:24 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-03 11:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 19:31 ` David Lang
2014-05-02 19:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-02 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 19:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 20:58 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 21:48 ` Jeff King
2014-05-02 21:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:36 ` Jeff King
2014-05-02 23:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 2:18 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-06 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 22:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 7:56 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-03 8:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03 9:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 9:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04 4:30 ` David Lang
2014-05-04 4:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 6:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04 6:50 ` James Denholm
2014-05-04 7:48 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-04 9:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 10:37 ` James Denholm
2014-05-04 11:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-03 9:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-03 22:09 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 3:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 7:49 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 10:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-04 19:09 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-04 21:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-05 5:44 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-05 5:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 22:37 ` Max Kirillov
2014-05-03 10:00 ` John Szakmeister
2014-05-05 15:39 ` Richard Hansen
2014-05-05 18:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:12 ` Philip Oakley
2014-05-09 19:49 ` Marc Branchaud
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