From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil" Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 13:51:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2642@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" To: Jim Garrison X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 07 22:51:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi8oA-0004sD-ER for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 22:51:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751406AbaEGUvM (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 16:51:12 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:55666 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbaEGUvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 16:51:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144F91647C; Wed, 7 May 2014 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=enhbR8FU/kYsgMdwIEQ6ReifKRU=; b=gke9MA ZPZj/6sYDQNbUiXqYSdjGCEeickuKkkv2CCV/Kx5UJRyNO6m/7E4qUtuVFhinbrC Ht5TABPeAhsnK98zrzVremDR/lGlLKGwmDVKEizyt2IvavZg5+25HPVuHY9Pw3iO h+pvYNOnRwej4VVm287myaae6/NqLnCvu8R2g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=fPhGQU0Uxyai7MAyCmx+3V9+yYOoeIQ8 fqkvHdXlQOeY6l0sPXn982BifiBdhR10UhXCgbQ9/xbBxANA2gsFYNGCbfJ8rc8Z LAzl8xMV7bGbnwVBopF1q22nSrEbnqXF+dRUPXLso74YsfOtARx+ajrm8pa6XZSw IokoaJOURSU= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075211647B; Wed, 7 May 2014 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 851AF16477; Wed, 7 May 2014 16:51:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> (Jim Garrison's message of "Wed, 7 May 2014 20:30:32 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4ED109EC-D629-11E3-BA98-9CEB01674E00-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jim Garrison 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?