From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen & Linda Smith Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil" Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 17:45:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1484962.u3Uah1apFn@thunderbird> References: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2642@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Jim Garrison , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 08 03:25:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WiD5D-00063p-TR for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 03:25:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752480AbaEHBZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 21:25:08 -0400 Received: from fed1rmfepo201.cox.net ([68.230.241.146]:56823 "EHLO fed1rmfepo201.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751921AbaEHBZH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2014 21:25:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2556 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 21:25:07 EDT Received: from fed1rmimpo109 ([68.230.241.158]) by fed1rmfepo103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20140508004229.XABF24376.fed1rmfepo103.cox.net@fed1rmimpo109> for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 20:42:29 -0400 Received: from thunderbird ([68.231.74.114]) by fed1rmimpo109 with cox id zCiV1n00K2TxN4s01CiViu; Wed, 07 May 2014 20:42:29 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020207.536AD2F5.00D3,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=JNPlRb2b c=1 sm=1 a=So8zV0cAyE/J2U/+o1/Dyg==:17 a=HZTKFlc_eFYA:10 a=9WgkDmkfN58A:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=HFKujjh8AAAA:8 a=VwQbUJbxAAAA:8 a=eC_hR14S0q_r25voJfcA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=x8gzFH9gYPwA:10 a=BbY817XAw1EA:10 a=So8zV0cAyE/J2U/+o1/Dyg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from thunderbird.localnet (thunderbird [127.0.0.1]) by thunderbird (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448E613F635; Wed, 7 May 2014 17:45:31 -0700 (MST) User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.13.0-24-generic; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; ) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'll create a patch. On Wednesday, May 07, 2014 01:51:04 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jim Garrison writes: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Junio C Hamano > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:16 PM > >> Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil" > >> > >> No. This is most often true for people who use a single repository as a > >> place for everybody to meet, in the same way as SVN. > > [snip lots of excellent detail] > >> HTH. > > > > Wow. That helps tremendously, and should be incorporated somewhere in the > > Git documentation. Thank you for your immensely detailed response. > > We used to collect useful list postings in Documentation/howto/; > perhaps somebody wants to do the minimum copyediting of the message > and send a patch? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html