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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, git@matthieu-moy.fr, christiwald@gmail.com,
	john@keeping.me.uk, philipoakley@iee.email,
	phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] don't imply that integration is always required before pushing
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:15:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpm4vrdn8.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <919d1ba8-bb8b-a77b-cef3-db14f168ed4a@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:51:09 +0100")

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Alex
>
> On 13/07/2023 05:41, Alex Henrie wrote:
>> Many times now, I have seen novices do the following:
>> 1. Start work on their own personal topic branch
>> 2. Push the branch to origin
>> 3. Rebase the branch onto origin/master
>> 4. Try to push again, but Git says they need to pull
>> 5. Pull and make a mess trying to reconcile the older topic branch with
>>     the rebased topic branch
>> Help avoid this mistake by giving somewhat more general advice that
>> does
>> not assume that the user always wants to do reconciliation.
>> Changes from v4:
>> - Don't show divergent branch advice in the middle of `git commit`
>> - Soften the advice, but don't specifically mention force-pushing
>
> All three patches look fine to me, they are definitely an improvement
> on the current advice.
>
> Thanks for working on this,
>
> Phillip

Thanks, both.  Will queue after taking another look.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-13 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-02 20:08 [PATCH 0/2] advise about force-pushing as an alternative to reconciliation Alex Henrie
2023-07-02 20:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] remote: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-02 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] push: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-03 15:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Phillip Wood
2023-07-03 16:26   ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-04 21:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-04 22:24     ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-05  5:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-06  2:32         ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-04 19:47 ` [PATCH v2 " Alex Henrie
2023-07-04 19:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] remote: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-04 21:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-04 22:41       ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-04 19:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] push: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-06  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Alex Henrie
2023-07-06  4:01     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] remote: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-06 20:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-06 20:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-06 23:23           ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-07 17:35             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-07 17:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-08 18:55               ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-09  1:38                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-10  4:44                   ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-11  0:55                     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-12  4:47                       ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-12 15:18                         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-13  4:09                           ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-07  8:48       ` Phillip Wood
2023-07-06  4:01     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] push: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-07  8:49       ` Phillip Wood
2023-07-07 18:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-08 18:56         ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-11 18:33           ` Phillip Wood
2023-07-12  4:47             ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-12  4:55               ` Alex Henrie
2023-07-07  5:42     ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Alex Henrie
2023-07-07  5:42       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] remote: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-07  5:42       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] push: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-13  4:41       ` [PATCH v5 0/3] don't imply that integration is always required before pushing Alex Henrie
2023-07-13  4:41         ` [PATCH v5 1/3] wt-status: don't show divergence advice when committing Alex Henrie
2023-07-13  4:41         ` [PATCH v5 2/3] remote: don't imply that integration is always required before pushing Alex Henrie
2023-07-13  4:41         ` [PATCH v5 3/3] push: " Alex Henrie
2023-07-13  9:51         ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Phillip Wood
2023-07-13 16:15           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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