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Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:11:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Artur Bieniek Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk , Phillip Wood , Koji Nakamaru , git@vger.kernel.org, Artur Bieniek Subject: Re: [PATCH] pull: add --hard mode In-Reply-To: <248fc3ca-7907-4720-ab71-1cf5926b82a0@antmicro.com> (Artur Bieniek's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:55:08 +0200") References: <0c2607e2-16da-4efd-879f-82ef2c2aa127@gmail.com> <2b9cc581-7c8e-4cb3-9524-2b466209ac7e@antmicro.com> <248fc3ca-7907-4720-ab71-1cf5926b82a0@antmicro.com> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:11:41 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Artur Bieniek writes: > If resetting does not belong under pull, would the inverse design be > more appropriate, e.g. git reset --pull --hard, meaning “fetch the > configured upstream and reset to it”? Or would making reset perform > network I/O be undesirable for the same reason? Very true. I wonder if the feature of git you should be looking at for doing things like this is not "pull", "fetch", or "reset" but is "alias"?