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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 17:33:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0902190833p6ef34591i28f56495acc3e196@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499D894F.90508@xiplink.com>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:31, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:
> So commits A and B are basically left dangling?

Correct, that's why it's not desirable to do so when it's not your
private repo/branch ;).

> If that's the case, then I'd say "replaces" or "overwrites" is the right
> word to use in the 'remote show' output.

Yes, that would be a better wording.

> But more importantly, I think the 'git push' man page needs to explain this!

>From my cursory glance the term 'non-fast forward' is indeed not
explained in the man-page, feel like writing a patch? ;)

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19 16:35 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
2009-02-19 16:31             ` Marc Branchaud
2009-02-19 16:33               ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
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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