From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jerome Lovy Subject: Rationale for the "Never commit to the right side of a Pull line" rule Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:47:43 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.11.48.246 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd8SO-0005y5-9l for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:51:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423490AbWJZQvt convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:51:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423492AbWJZQvt (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:51:49 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:31717 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423490AbWJZQvs (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:51:48 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd8S7-0005ty-Mp for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:51:36 +0200 Received: from 212.11.48.246 ([212.11.48.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:51:35 +0200 Received: from t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg by 212.11.48.246 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:51:35 +0200 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, Could someone please point me to / give me the rationale for the "Never= =20 commit to the right side of a Pull line" rule ? I found the rule in the second Note of the git-fetch man-page (eg=20 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.html). It's been taken over in _bold letters_ by X.Org/freedesktop.org in thei= r=20 "UsingGit" document (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/UsingGit). In both places though, I don't see any explanation, but rather a=20 commandment ;-) . Am I missing the ovious ? My candid thoughts: to me the practice recommended here seems=20 subjectively "cleaner" indeed, but is it objectively better or even=20 essential? Why? TIA J=E9r=F4me