From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] remote: new show output style Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:16:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1235020471-59982-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> <1235020471-59982-2-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> <1235020471-59982-3-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> <1235020471-59982-4-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> <1235020471-59982-5-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> <499D82BC.7020500@xiplink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jay Soffian , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , Johannes Sixt To: Marc Branchaud X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 19 17:18:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LaBb6-00082v-Qz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:18:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753968AbZBSQQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:16:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753877AbZBSQQc (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:16:32 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]:14966 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753777AbZBSQQb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:16:31 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1236983fgg.17 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:16:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nj6w/1IXPnqIYvSh1OvXSAf6OdJNceqBh1EBjRgCAGg=; b=KQ/2SqL8jREZa7cA9d6YIOrGAq/AGlXxooXRUBWvKCoSPQ4fpj0EDJV3q4pTbQ5j2h Md66JjeFkyksYDxcrN0GnJL/xOqF/chc4n+Av+OwFiFKzyRRI4zV1hOjk5dlN3w2LYUM QnIvhD0wlMqIy+0PwuvmS1F/pJeA9n4YMRTQo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ZE32Hx6nmiSUnzWf1XazeuG8Kun+TSB7VMDx0wIyS22irf9HGUFvVazKhcYinUMWbN JYhi266N2tGmJkZelFuYntfrdvcbncgntxpIfCu7u7Pc9LI+Vifd2puawuXi6aQVuyks QHp9yyzLi3gKg298wBMPpiqJ4uhp9iZE1n4gU= Received: by 10.86.99.9 with SMTP id w9mr424309fgb.31.1235060190148; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:16:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <499D82BC.7020500@xiplink.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c46894e5e1bcbb51 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:03, Marc Branchaud 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