From: Jerome Lovy <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Rationale for the "Never commit to the right side of a Pull line" rule
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:47:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ehqp1u$j4$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
Hi,
Could someone please point me to / give me the rationale for the "Never
commit to the right side of a Pull line" rule ?
I found the rule in the second Note of the git-fetch man-page (eg
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.html).
It's been taken over in _bold letters_ by X.Org/freedesktop.org in their
"UsingGit" document (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/UsingGit).
In both places though, I don't see any explanation, but rather a
commandment ;-) . Am I missing the ovious ?
My candid thoughts: to me the practice recommended here seems
subjectively "cleaner" indeed, but is it objectively better or even
essential? Why?
TIA
Jérôme
next reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 16:47 Jerome Lovy [this message]
2006-10-26 17:11 ` Rationale for the "Never commit to the right side of a Pull line" rule Linus Torvalds
2006-10-26 17:26 ` Karl Hasselström
2006-10-26 17:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-27 8:56 ` Luben Tuikov
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