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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:54:18 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> If we really want a fetch+rebase script, OK, but call it something other 
> than pull.

Why?  pull = fetch + merge only because that was the originally envisioned 
way to pull remote changes into your local working tree.  However, I do 
not see why we should be married to pull being a fetch and a merge for 
eternity.

Ciao,
Dscho