From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wincent Colaiuta Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] push: teach push to be quiet if local ref is strict subset of remote ref Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:11:35 +0100 Message-ID: <5D2EDD64-CD98-4747-8579-25DF7FC9DAAC@wincent.com> References: <1193593581312-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <1193593581114-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <1193593581486-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935812185-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935822846-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935821136-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935823045-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935821800-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935823496-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935935821192-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <7vfxztm2dx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <52171BF7-50E2-473E-A0BD-CB64D38FD502@zib.de> <7vejfcl8aj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v8x5jiseh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vve8nglrt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.o rg> <7vlk9jgeee.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <0C176853-8848-46C8-AD7A-97F73274DC29@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v912) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 02 14:12:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InwK7-0005VR-Hz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:12:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753106AbXKBNMQ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:12:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752824AbXKBNMP (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:12:15 -0400 Received: from wincent.com ([72.3.236.74]:37358 "EHLO s69819.wincent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752700AbXKBNMP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:12:15 -0400 Received: from cuzco.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by s69819.wincent.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id lA2DBaum031930; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:11:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.912) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: El 2/11/2007, a las 13:48, Steffen Prohaska escribi=F3: > On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >> >>> Of course, it's too late too change now, but it would be nice if th= e >>> mirror of "fetch" were "send". (I know it's been commented in the =20 >>> past >>> that the fact that "push" and "pull" aren't mirror operations has >>> surprised quite a few people.) >> >> Could you please just do >> >> git config --global alias.send push >> >> and be done with it? (snip) > The comment was about how to avoid surprises for people that > are new to git, not how to let long-time users have an alias > for push. Exactly. I was talking about the *initial* surprise for new users, not = =20 for people who already know the difference between push, pull and =20 fetch (99% of people reading this list already, myself included). > The _only_ real solution I see right now, is to stop the > discussion and leave "git push" as is. I strongly believe that > the git community in its majority will refuse to rename push; > though I have no evidence for this. As I said above, "Of course, it's too late to change now"... I don't =20 think it will be renamed either. Cheers, Wincent