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From: "Matthias Urlichs" <matthias@urlichs.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git user survey and `git pull`
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:05:23 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef1j6j$8sn$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060921162401.GD3934@spearce.org

For what it's worth, I'm in favor of renaming the things.

IMHO, we do not need that kind of baggage. Sure, you explain it once and
people hopefully remember -- except that they don't, not always anyway,
and novice users can't be expected to be notice, let alone repair, that
kind of damage.

*I* make that stupid pull/fetch/merge mistake sometimes, 
and I'm not exactly new to git...


On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:24:01 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:

>   Current            Shoulda Been
>   ---------------    ----------------
>   git-push           git-push
>   git-fetch          git-pull
>   git-pull . foo     git-merge foo
>   git-pull           git-pull --merge
>   git-merge          git-merge-driver
> 
The new programs can (for the most part) recognize when they're called with
"old" semantics, and spit out a warning.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21 16:24 Git user survey and `git pull` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-21 16:40 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-21 17:38   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-21 18:05     ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-22  4:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-22 10:34       ` Santi
2006-09-22 19:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-22 23:24           ` Santi
2006-09-21 17:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-21 17:09   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-21 17:12   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-21 17:17   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-22 21:05 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2006-09-23 11:51   ` Alan Chandler
2006-09-23 14:12   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-23  8:54 ` Jakub Narebski

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