Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think pull is pull. If you are doing lots of local stuff and do not want it overwritten, it should have been in a forked branch. I disagree. This already forces you to have two branches (one to pull from to get the data, mirroring the remote

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-20 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:01:57AM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... [...] fatal: unable to execute 'gitmerge-file.sh' fatal: merge program failed Pure stupidity of mine, I forgot to add gitmerge-file.sh to the list of scripts which get

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:01:57AM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... [...] fatal: unable to execute 'gitmerge-file.sh' fatal: merge program failed Pure stupidity of mine, I forgot to add

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-20 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:32:35PM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... * Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yet another thing: what is the canonical 'pasky way' of simply nuking the current files and checking out the latest tree

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-20 Thread David Mansfield
Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:32:35PM CEST, I got a letter where Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... * Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yet another thing: what is the canonical 'pasky way' of simply nuking the current files and checking out the latest

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread David Greaves
David A. Wheeler wrote: I propose changing pull to ONLY download, and update to pull AND merge. Why? It seems oddly inconsistent that pull sometimes merges in changes, but at other times it doesn't. true I propose that there be two subcommands, pull and update (now that update isn't a reserved

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:05:10PM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:55AM CEST, I got a letter where David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread Jon Seymour
I disagree. This already forces you to have two branches (one to pull from to get the data, mirroring the remote branch, one for your real work) uselessly and needlessly. ... These naming issues may appear silly but I think they matter big time for usability, intuitiveness, and learning

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 12:50 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:05:10PM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:55AM CEST, I got

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: I disagree. This already forces you to have two branches (one to pull from to get the data, mirroring the remote branch, one for your real work) uselessly and needlessly. If you pull in a non-tracked tree, it certainly won't apply the changes, so you

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread David A. Wheeler
Daniel Barkalow wrote: See, I don't think you ever want to just pull. You want to pull-and-do-something, but the something could be any operation... In a _logical_ sense that's true; I'd only want to pull data if I intended to (possibly) do something with it. But as a _practical_ matter, I can