From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl Baldwin Subject: Re: Making note, in the repository, of push/pull relationships Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:03:27 -0600 Organization: Hewlett Packard Message-ID: <20050816160327.GA20016@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> References: <20050815162519.GB9719@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Carl Baldwin , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 16 18:06:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E53vQ-0007Fj-Ho for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:04:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030206AbVHPQER (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:04:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030208AbVHPQER (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:04:17 -0400 Received: from atlrel7.hp.com ([156.153.255.213]:28397 "EHLO atlrel7.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030206AbVHPQEQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:04:16 -0400 Received: from smtp2.fc.hp.com (smtp.fc.hp.com [15.15.136.253]) by atlrel7.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C14211A; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:03:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com (hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com [15.6.94.42]) by smtp2.fc.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC374214CC; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com (Postfix, from userid 21523) id 75FDF4862; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:03:27 -0600 (MDT) To: Johannes Schindelin Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Origin: hpescnb.fc.hp.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:49:33AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Carl Baldwin wrote: > > > Somewhere in the thread something was mentioned about maintaining > > : pairs in the git repository when pushes > > and pulls are performed. I think the argument was actually against > > keeping this information and ultimately against allowing pushes to a > > branch of a different name. > > I think the loudest voice was mine :-) > > Actually, I was not against *keeping* the information, but against > *pulling* in such strange ways. If "cross-pulling" is allowed, I am all > for keeping track of that. So, just a question. What, exactly, is meant by 'cross-pulling'? > In the meantime, I did not think about the issue at all :-) However, as is > often the case in an open discussion, I think I was wrong after all. There > may be cases you want that, and in the end, nobody forces me to use that > feature. > > Anyway, Junio decided to enhance the fetch mechanism to support the > cross-pulling (and also multi-pulling). > > Ciao, > Dscho > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Carl Baldwin Systems VLSI Laboratory Hewlett Packard Company MS 88 work: 970 898-1523 3404 E. Harmony Rd. work: Carl.N.Baldwin@hp.com Fort Collins, CO 80525 home: Carl@ecBaldwin.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -