From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge? Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:54:43 +1000 Message-ID: <2cfc4032050419065472ef3db0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050416233305.GO19099@pasky.ji.cz> <20050419011206.GT5554@pasky.ji.cz> <42646967.9030903@dwheeler.com> <4264CCFF.30400@dgreaves.com> <20050419092812.GE2393@pasky.ji.cz> <1113905110.1262.1.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20050419105008.GB12757@pasky.ji.cz> Reply-To: jon@zeta.org.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Martin Schlemmer , David Greaves , dwheeler@dwheeler.com, Daniel Barkalow , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 19 15:53:39 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNt7f-0004eF-9U for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:50:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261527AbVDSNyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:54:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261528AbVDSNyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:54:46 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.204]:33383 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261527AbVDSNyo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:54:44 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so1208209rnf for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:54:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WM5uBheDzB+yhyBS/nEVzlVqFoUgkFaZ/1KPpfGs+DJ//KPbguk3VE9RHgsNQSEL+TomAhtFVdtRO9DbJySNQUcMdkOYfyL7MhK215VQ+DwSgY7ufzLGH7pg+cpLTqKPjmXW7ea11DX4CqVmc0QcM9XA4h3vBVZ0Gr7G2Pg9CpI= Received: by 10.38.66.58 with SMTP id o58mr766681rna; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.104.32 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:54:43 -0700 (PDT) To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050419105008.GB12757@pasky.ji.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org > I disagree. This already forces you to have two branches (one to pull > from to get the data, mirroring the remote branch, one for your real > work) uselessly and needlessly. > > ... > These naming issues may appear silly but I think they matter big time > for usability, intuitiveness, and learning curve (I don't want git-pasky > become another GNU arch). > Not that it is worth that much, but my $0.02 is that Petr is right on this one. I want something that allows me to get the objects into my local repository without funking with my working directory. As a long time CVS user, "git update" would do what I expect it to. I don't have any pre-conceptions about what "pull" does, so it doesn't phase me if pull is used for this purpose. However, perhaps pull means something in some other SCM that would cause confusion for others? Some alternatives to "pull" are offered: hoard, gather, make-local, download. Regards, jon. -- homepage: http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/ blog: http://orwelliantremors.blogspot.com/