Re: Git user survey and `git pull`

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Right now, a plain "git pull" means "fetch all branches and merge the 
> first one", and the thing is, that's generally the right thing _only_ if 
> you pull into "master".
> 
> It's usually exactly the _wrong_ thing to do for any other branch. In 
> particular, if you work with a project that has lots of branches, and 
> you're working in another branch (that is directly tracking a remote, for 
> example), doing a "git pull" definitely should _not_ merge the first head. 
> It should fetch everything, and possibly merge the _matching_ head.
> 
> Which it doesn't do right now.

I think you're summarizing my grip about git pull quite well.  This is 
really counter-intuitive and I've been bitten by that behavior on many 
occasions.


Nicolas