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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] remote: new show output style
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:16:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0902190816m3c70923eg132e89bff28a216f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499D82BC.7020500@xiplink.com>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:03, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:
> Though I'm not really happy using "updates" when + is specified in the push
> refspec.  What, precisely, is a "non-fast forward update" anyway?  Is it
> essentially a rebase?  If so, maybe "rebases onto remote " would be better
> (again with a trailing space to get nice alignment).

A non-fast forward update in terms of pushing means you overwrite
whatever the remote currently has set as that branch's head. This can
be desirable in a private repository or branch, but is usually not
desired on shared branches.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-19  5:14 [PATCH 0/4] Improve "remote show" output Jay Soffian
2009-02-19  5:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] remote: minor code cleanups in preparation for changing "show" output Jay Soffian
2009-02-19  5:14   ` [PATCH 2/4] remote: move append_ref_to_tracked_list to get rid of prototype Jay Soffian
2009-02-19  5:14     ` [PATCH 3/4] string-list: add for_each_string_list() Jay Soffian
2009-02-19  5:14       ` [PATCH 4/4] remote: new show output style Jay Soffian
2009-02-19 16:03         ` Marc Branchaud
2009-02-19 16:16           ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-02-19 16:31             ` Marc Branchaud
2009-02-19 16:33               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-02-19 16:17           ` Rostislav Svoboda
2009-02-19 17:57           ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-19 17:59             ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-19 18:58             ` Julian Phillips
2009-02-20 22:34             ` Marc Branchaud
2009-02-20 22:55               ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-19 19:29         ` Johannes Sixt
2009-02-19 19:51           ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-20  7:19   ` [PATCH 1/4] remote: minor code cleanups in preparation for changing "show" output Junio C Hamano
2009-02-20 10:50     ` Jay Soffian

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