From: "Christoph Böhmwalder" <christoph@boehmwalder.at>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why is there no force pull?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 22:25:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180609202553.dvoirez5mi2r4ctk@christoph-lap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BG9HQ4O8h7-b4oL7KLu+boe6-QV1fvcfW_4O3Rax3W_Hw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 01:04:30PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Upon reading the subject and before reading the body, I assumed you
> were going to ask for a 'git pull --force' that would throw away
> *uncommitted* changes (i.e. do a 'git reset --hard HEAD' before the
> rest of the pull). But then you asked for both uncommitted and
> committed changes to be thrown away. That difference isn't something
> you have to consider with a push.
>
> That might be a reason such an option would be confusing, or it might
> just be a warning to document the option carefully. Anyway, thought
> I'd mention it.
Interesting, I hadn't taken that first scenario into consideration at
all. So I guess two very aptly named flags would be necessary to
implement this kind of feature...
--
Regards,
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-09 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-09 19:01 Why is there no force pull? Christoph Böhmwalder
2018-06-09 20:04 ` Elijah Newren
2018-06-09 20:25 ` Christoph Böhmwalder [this message]
2018-06-09 20:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-10 16:11 ` Torsten Bögershausen
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