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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Rebase to parent branch after git-fetch in "stg pull".
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:38:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070204023818.GA27644@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzm7uy8ng.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:10:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not think it is wrong to have a separate mechanism (and it
> might end up being called as "mergelocal" which you said might
> be a terrible name) for that.  I just think it is probably a
> wrong thing to do to use branch.*.merge for that. As you said,
> operations you are interested in like format-patch (and perhaps
> rebase) of a local branch relative to another locally available
> ref (be it another branch or a tracking branch) do not involve
> fetching (hence pulling) necessarily.

Good, it looks like we are mostly agreeing on this then (the feature
might have some use, but it should _not_ be tacked onto branch.*.merge).
I will give it some thought until v1.5.0 has settled, and then hopefully
submit some patches.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-04  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-01 23:47 [PATCH 0/3] Update to stgit parent tracking Yann Dirson
2007-02-01 23:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] The user does not want to mess with the refspecs Yann Dirson
2007-02-01 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] Rebase to parent branch after git-fetch in "stg pull" Yann Dirson
2007-02-02  9:58   ` Catalin Marinas
2007-02-02 18:07     ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-02 22:42       ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-02 23:01         ` Catalin Marinas
2007-02-02 23:25           ` Catalin Marinas
2007-02-03 21:46             ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-03 23:01               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-04  0:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-04  0:24                 ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-04  1:49                 ` Jeff King
2007-02-04  2:10                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-04  2:38                     ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-02-02 23:56       ` git-clone wrongly setting branch.*.merge ? (Was: [PATCH 2/3] Rebase to parent branch after git-fetch in "stg pull".) Yann Dirson
2007-02-03  0:14         ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-03  0:17         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 12:16         ` Catalin Marinas
2007-02-03 14:47           ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-01 23:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] Do not return 'origin' as parent remote when there is no such remote Yann Dirson

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