From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>,
dwheeler@dwheeler.com, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:50:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050419105008.GB12757@pasky.ji.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113905110.1262.1.camel@nosferatu.lan>
Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:05:10PM CEST, I got a letter
where Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> told me that...
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:55AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
> >
> > Dunno. I do it personally all the time, with git at least.
> >
> > What do others think? :-)
> >
>
> I think pull is pull. If you are doing lots of local stuff and do not
> want it overwritten, it should have been in a forked branch.
I disagree. This already forces you to have two branches (one to pull
from to get the data, mirroring the remote branch, one for your real
work) uselessly and needlessly.
I think there is just no good name for what pull is doing now, and
update seems like a great name for what pull-and-merge really is. Pull
really is pull - it _pulls_ the data, while update also updates the
given tree. No surprises.
(We should obviously have also update-without-pull but that is probably
not going to be so common so a parameter for update (like -n) should be
fine for that.)
These naming issues may appear silly but I think they matter big time
for usability, intuitiveness, and learning curve (I don't want git-pasky
become another GNU arch).
Kind regards,
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-19 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-16 1:56 [PATCH] Add "clone" support to lntree Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 2:47 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 2:58 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 3:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 11:39 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 3:17 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 23:33 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 0:07 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-19 1:12 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 2:13 ` Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge? David A. Wheeler
2005-04-19 9:18 ` David Greaves
2005-04-19 9:28 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 10:05 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-19 10:50 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-04-19 13:54 ` Jon Seymour
2005-04-19 14:40 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-19 18:28 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-19 22:39 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-19 23:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-20 7:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-20 20:05 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 20:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-20 20:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-20 21:15 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 23:58 ` David Mansfield
2005-04-16 3:06 ` Add "clone" support to lntree Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 23:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 23:07 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 23:44 ` Petr Baudis
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