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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: dwheeler@dwheeler.com
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>,
	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 10:18:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4264CCFF.30400@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42646967.9030903@dwheeler.com>

David A. Wheeler wrote:
> I propose changing "pull" to ONLY download, and "update" to pull AND merge.

> Why? It seems oddly inconsistent that "pull" sometimes merges
> in changes, but at other times it doesn't.
true

> I propose that there be two subcommands, "pull" and "update"
> (now that "update" isn't a reserved word again).
> A "git pull" ONLY downloads; a "git update" pulls AND merges.

What's the most common thing to do? pull or update?
which is easier to type?
what are people used to?

I'm not sure but I suggest that pull and get would be better choices.

git pull
git get

is it rare enough to justify:
git --download-only pull


David

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19  9:14 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 [this message]
2005-04-19  9:28                 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 10:05                   ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-19 10:50                     ` Petr Baudis
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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