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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:13:44 -0800
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

>  - clone but not a put-clone,

What's put-clone?  Care to explain?

>  - pull = merge + fetch, but no command for merge + throw

What's merge+throw?  Care to explain?

>  - clone for getting all branches of a repo, but no command for
>    updating all branches of a repo.  

This one I can understand, but how would you propose to "update
all branches", in other words what's your design for mapping
remote branch names to local branch namespaces?

It would be nice if the design does not straightjacket different
repository layouts different people seem to like, but I think it
would be Ok to limit ourselves only to support the straight
one-to-one mapping and support only separate-remote layout.