From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Git List Mailing <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pull: introduce --merge option
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:52:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMMLpeQ-Qpct4TX__KVuCyjbgxtB49qTMRHYc9R9-o0cRu4MuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwnpcdu1w.fsf@gitster.g>
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 2:45 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Junio, would you be willing to accept adding -m without adding --merge also?
>
> My gut feeling is that "-m" without "--merge" in the context of
> "pull" is extremely unlikely to fly well.
>
> As "git pull" is a "git fetch" followed by a "git merge" (or "git
> rebase"), it takes the union of common command line options from
> both phases, and "git merge" takes "-m 'message'" which is an option
> fairly familiar to users (since it comes from "git commit"). Even
> if we are never going to pass "-m message" from "git pull" down to
> underlying "git merge", squatting on short and common "-m" would be
> a bad idea.
Thanks for the explanation. I forgot that "-m" usually means
"message". That does seem like a good reason to not use "-m" for
"merge".
-Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-21 13:46 [PATCH v2] pull: introduce --merge option Felipe Contreras
2021-07-21 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-26 4:06 ` Alex Henrie
2021-07-27 2:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-27 8:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-27 15:52 ` Alex Henrie [this message]
2021-07-27 16:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-28 7:44 ` Matthias Baumgarten
2021-07-28 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-28 18:18 ` Matthias Baumgarten
2021-07-28 19:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-27 6:31 ` Felipe Contreras
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