From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git pull for update of netdev fails. Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:01:48 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20060920080308.673a1e93@localhost.localdomain> <20060920155431.GO8259@pasky.or.cz> <7vhcz2jzfd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060920161825.GR8259@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 20 22:05:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQ8Jq-0004ur-0j for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:05:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750703AbWITUFL convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:05:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750702AbWITUFL (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:05:11 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44941 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703AbWITUFJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:05:09 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GQ8Ja-0004qz-IW for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:05:02 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-26-109.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.26.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:05:02 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-26-109.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-26-109.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: =20 >> Seamless support is there and Linus described how without >> breaking the usual "if not fast forward you may lose some >> patches so be extra careful" safety valve. >=20 > =A0 I argue that this safety valve is useless for most people (and > actually I have hard time imagining a plausible scenario in which it > actually _is_ useful). The support is not really seamless since you h= ave > to make manual changes to refspecs, while most people probably don't > understand them (and shouldn't be required to if they are just tracki= ng > someone else anyway). Or you can always pull with the --force option... --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git