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From: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git pull opinion
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:30:23 -0500
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> I respectfully beg to differ.  I think it is entirely reasonable, and
> not a sign of "centralized" mindset, to want to pull changes others
> have made into your dirty repository with a single command.

BitKeeper, for example, does a merge with a "dirty" directory.
I am not saying that git should behave the same way but I think
that this argument strengthens the point that it is not a
"centralized repository" mindset.

- Aghiles.