From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH] Explicitly add the default "git pull" behaviour to .git/config on clone Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:55:41 +0000 Message-ID: <200612061255.42379.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200612061207.23437.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:55:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Uxe5ookaz7jUsk8txBwTeyiJpsE/4RMpzmMQwIvJHn+xJPzeQNgkGsxbcjjYLO6IMrJiX/6sgc8HiO26YsGUanQlFzjpeR30Ls9ip/1uV1Q+sLsBBCbrx7lbUBsCvW3h5ZcPFT3j/nRswRxq95Q+rRRfxVtNRywjdncElUKRE7c= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GrwJS-000557-9h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:55:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760577AbWLFMzr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:55:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760578AbWLFMzr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:55:47 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:59326 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760577AbWLFMzq (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:55:46 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so131213uga for ; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.117.2 with SMTP id u2mr728352ugm.1165409745407; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 13sm30232329ugb.2006.12.06.04.55.44; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:55:45 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 2006 December 06 12:27, Jakub Narebski wrote: > This doesn't help newbies if they do "git pull" on branch other than > "master". Git would fetch (a) from default remote "origin" (which can > be unexpected a bit) (b) into current branch (which can be very > unexpected for newbie) (c) the first branch in remote (which can be > very unexpected). That's why I was suggesting to remove the default behaviour when there is no branch defined. In that case git-pull would just exit with an appropriate message. > Perhaps protected by config option and/or pull option... or perhaps not. > Refuse pulling into current branch if it doesn.t have branch..remote > matching current remote and doesn't have branch..merge entry, unless > of course refspec is provided. That's exactly what I meant; although your description is better. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE