Re: Multiple shared repositories (including svn) workflow

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com> writes:

> Anyway, I've been using git for only a few months. There might/must
> be better ways to do it. As a user coming from cvs and svn, it seems
> to me that the most confusing command is actually "git pull" as it
> doesn't work with such workflow at all (conflicts with confusing
> messages, until you really understand the implications of rebase). It
> seems to me that if we create a new "git update" command which is
> essentially "git fetch && git rebase <remotebranch>", it would
> greatly alleviate such confusions. Some lessons learned from the
> short experience:
> 
> 1. commit first, ask question later.
> 2. rebase is the new update
> 3. reset --hard and reflog are your friends.

I don't remember if it would be in coming 1.5.4 release, but there
is "git pull --rebase", which means fetch + rebase instead of default
fetch + merge.

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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