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From: Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull --preserve-merges
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:07:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811081807.53199.fg@one2team.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811081607300.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Le Saturday 08 November 2008 16:08:41 Johannes Schindelin, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Stephen Haberman wrote:
> > Awhile ago I brought up wanting to have a "rebase with preserve merges"
> > option for `git pull`
>
> That might be something you want, but you cannot call it
>
> 	git pull --preserve-merges
>
> since everybody used to "pull = fetch && merge" would go "Huh? A merge
> _does_ preserve merges".
>
> If at all, you could call it "--rebase=preserve-merges".
>

Why not --rebase --keep-merges? Personnally, I think it makes things clearer 
since in general options are either standalone or have a value.

-- 
fge

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-08 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 22:01 pull --preserve-merges Stephen Haberman
2008-11-08 15:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-08 17:07   ` Francis Galiegue [this message]
2008-11-08 17:57     ` Stephen Haberman
2008-11-10 19:05 ` Stephen Haberman
2008-11-10 19:48   ` Johannes Schindelin

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