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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] fetch doc: update note on '+' in front of the refspec
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:42:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401403350-7122-3-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401403350-7122-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

While it is not *wrong* per-se to say that pulling a rewound/rebased
branch will lead to an unnecessary merge conflict, that is not what
the leading "+" sign to allow non-fast-forward update of remote-tracking
branch is at all.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index 18cffc2..2a7e2b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -24,15 +24,15 @@ is updated even if it does not result in a fast-forward
 update.
 +
 [NOTE]
-If the remote branch from which you want to pull is
-modified in non-linear ways such as being rewound and
-rebased frequently, then a pull will attempt a merge with
-an older version of itself, likely conflict, and fail.
-It is under these conditions that you would want to use
-the `+` sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates will
-be needed.  There is currently no easy way to determine
-or declare that a branch will be made available in a
-repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply
+When the remote branch you want to fetch is known to
+be rewound and rebased regularly, it is expected that
+the tip of it will not be descendant of the commit that
+used to be at its tip the last time you fetched it and
+stored in your remote-tracking branch.  You would want
+to use the `+` sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates
+will be needed for such branches.  There is no way to
+determine or declare that a branch will be made available
+in a repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply
 must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch.
 +
 [NOTE]
-- 
2.0.0-479-g59ac8f9

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-29 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-29 22:42 [PATCH 0/5] Documentation updates for 'git fetch' Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] fetch doc: update introductory part for clarity Junio C Hamano
2014-05-30 14:35   ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-30 17:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-30 19:13       ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-30 21:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-02 15:21       ` [PATCH] fetch doc: Move FETCH_HEAD material, and add an example Marc Branchaud
2014-06-02 18:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-30 14:35   ` [PATCH 2/5] fetch doc: update note on '+' in front of the refspec Marc Branchaud
2014-05-30 17:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-02 15:37       ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 3/5] fetch doc: remove notes on outdated "mixed layout" Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 4/5] fetch doc: on pulling multiple refspecs Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 5/5] fetch doc: update refspec format description Junio C Hamano

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