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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Default remote branch for local branch
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:56:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4430D517.5020205@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604030128.42680.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 
> Optionally, branching <new> off from <old> could add <new> as
> topic branch of <old>: Thus, if you are on <old> and do git-pull,
> you get <new> merged in.
> 

This is clearly insane. If I'm on <old> and want to sync with my 
upstream source that would be impossible without explicitly telling it 
*not* to merge with <new>. Iow, this change would (possibly) simplify 
for the one repo maintainer, but make things harder for the 30-odd 
developers.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-01  1:48 Default remote branch for local branch Pavel Roskin
2006-04-01  3:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-01  4:18   ` Pavel Roskin
2006-04-02 16:17     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-04-02 21:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-02 23:28         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-04-03  7:56           ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2006-04-03  9:38             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-04-03 10:03               ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-03  8:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-03 13:57             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-04-14 16:16       ` Petr Baudis
2006-04-14 18:26         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-04-01  5:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-01 19:57   ` Jakub Narebski

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