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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] make "git push" update origin and mirrors, "git push --mirror" update mirrors
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:08:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428060810.GA11858@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428033237.GN29771@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>It also clearly harms people who have only origin and want to grab
>updates from there with just `git fetch` or `git pull`.  Such a
>change would be asking these users to enter a longer command line.

Maybe this can be accomodated by having git fetch/git pull reference
all targets specified in the config file if none are specified on the
command line?

>On the other hand, I think it would teach those users how to better
>make use of git, and may cause less questions when they have to
>step slightly outside of their normal use case and specify a refspec.

I've been using git since november, and I found the magic "origin"
default one of the most confusing aspects (to figure out when it applies
and when not, and why (or why not)).
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-26  7:31 [PATCH resend] make "git push" update origin and mirrors, "git push --mirror" update mirrors Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-26 17:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-26 17:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-27  4:30     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-27  4:40       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-27  5:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-27 17:34           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-27 20:13             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-27 20:22               ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28  1:26                 ` Jeff King
2008-04-28  5:07                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28  9:09                     ` Jeff King
2008-04-28  9:11                       ` Jeff King
2008-04-28  9:19                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 10:33                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-28 11:24                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 11:57                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-28  3:32               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-28  5:03                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28  6:08                 ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
2008-04-28  1:21             ` Jeff King
2008-04-27  9:03         ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-27  7:23   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32 ` [PATCH 0/7] limit the usage of the default remote "origin" to the minimum Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32   ` [PATCH 1/7] add special "matching refs" refspec Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32     ` [PATCH 2/7] add push line in git-clone Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32       ` [PATCH 3/7] Add a --push option to "git-remote add" Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32         ` [PATCH 4/7] make "git push" update all push repositories Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32           ` [PATCH 5/7] don't rely on zero-argument "git fetch" from within git pull Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32             ` [PATCH 6/7] warn on "git pull" without a given branch.<name>.remote value Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 15:32               ` [PATCH 7/7] make "git fetch" update all fetch repositories Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 18:10                 ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-28 18:19                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-28 21:33                     ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29  4:52                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29  5:38                         ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29  6:05                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29  6:55                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 16:13                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-29 16:40                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 20:34                                   ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29  6:50                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29  7:16                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29  7:57                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29  8:48                                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29  9:02                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 21:08                                   ` しらいしななこ
     [not found]                                   ` <200804292108.m3TL8moV011790@mi1.bluebottle.com>
2008-04-29 21:21                                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 22:21                                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-29 20:44                                 ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29 21:15                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 21:33                                     ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29 21:41                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 21:53                                         ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29 22:26                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-29 23:02                                           ` Jeff King
2008-04-29 23:17                                             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-30  5:28                                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 21:39                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-29 20:24                             ` Alex Riesen
2008-05-01  6:28       ` [PATCH 2/7] add push line in git-clone Junio C Hamano
2008-05-06  8:37         ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-05-14 15:20           ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-05-14 18:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 19:07               ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-05-14 19:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 19:40                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-30  9:23     ` [PATCH 1/7] add special "matching refs" refspec Junio C Hamano
2008-04-30  9:35       ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 19:35   ` [PATCH 0/7] limit the usage of the default remote "origin" to the minimum Jeff King
2008-04-29 21:42     ` Alex Riesen
2008-04-29 21:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-29 23:12       ` Jeff King
2008-04-30  5:24         ` Paolo Bonzini

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