From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 13:51:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeh058g93.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> (Jim Garrison's message of "Wed, 7 May 2014 20:30:32 +0000")
Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org> writes:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Junio C Hamano
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
>>
>> No. This is most often true for people who use a single repository as a
>> place for everybody to meet, in the same way as SVN.
> [snip lots of excellent detail]
>> HTH.
>
> Wow. That helps tremendously, and should be incorporated somewhere in the
> Git documentation. Thank you for your immensely detailed response.
We used to collect useful list postings in Documentation/howto/;
perhaps somebody wants to do the minimum copyediting of the message
and send a patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-07 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 15:40 Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil" Jim Garrison
2014-05-07 16:20 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-07 17:04 ` Jeff King
2014-05-07 20:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 20:30 ` Jim Garrison
2014-05-07 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-08 0:45 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2014-05-09 6:08 ` [PATCH] How to keep a project's canonical history correct Stephen P. Smith
2014-05-09 13:41 ` Stephen Smith
2014-05-09 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-10 4:01 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
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