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 17:33:54 +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> <499D894F.90508@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 17:35:57 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 1LaBs2-00082V-3k for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:35:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753218AbZBSQeA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:34:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753171AbZBSQeA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:34:00 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:9165 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753134AbZBSQd7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:33:59 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1242963fgg.17 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:33:57 -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=Ojr3RnJSUCp7pCoW6pw9+7T/oedStrZMKiS6Hy+3REs=; b=dVmsWhQVBhvd7ej2ooq7Jbuts89JaMqmDMJu9qvjiedXliP2GqVO+7WKgtpefOicjM NMWltIcZuwxkQ1yoAKJg/h7NXpQyG6Iom1OpCpS8g+sDQFqlRGyS9jf2lI6aweUAJZXX 86ildHWFFJNK955iD0dudiSCmTlZmhxteExMo= 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=W64E3f6WN97tvV9aYNZkpt8yEwuMEJ6t/FvPWFv7xK2ND1DcMF7hH07HVhhKU3P/UP NeE+ej7oLGm3q86dah4HZBB+nPrWwC+osGwHpCAm4IgvD0yGGHnnnaTA0kr18mMJRhHD h8rnaHa7gGtUcGQJVN8tpbv14Vq2f6655FPRo= Received: by 10.86.73.1 with SMTP id v1mr429893fga.52.1235061237270; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:33:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <499D894F.90508@xiplink.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4df3db1121cae539 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 17:31, Marc Branchaud 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