Re: [PATCH 1/3] fetch: add --allow-local option

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> If you come from "git pull" is "git fetch" + "git merge",
>>> and if your current branch is integrating with your local branch,
>>
>> How many times do I have to say that 'git pull' is not 'git fetch' +
>> 'git merge'?
>>
>> You must think everybody has 'merge.defaulttoupstream=true'.
>
> I am confused.  What does that have anything to do with this topic?
> It only affects what a lazy "git merge" (without any other parameter
> on the command line) does, doesn't it?

And that's what we are talking about here; commands without any other
parameter in the command like.

So "git pull $nothing" is *not* "git fetch $nothing" + "git merge $nothing".

> In the above "git fetch" + "git merge", I did not mean "git merge"
> is literally what the command line of the command invoked
> internally.  "git pull" of course chooses what is to be merged.
>
> But that does not change the fact that before merging (or rebasing,
> if you are running "git pull --rebase"), "git fetch" is done in
> order to make sure the history you are merging with (or rebasing on
> top of) is available locally and FETCH_HEAD is prepared so that "git
> pull" can decide what to merge with (or rebase on).

We are not talking about 'git pull .', we are talking about 'git fetch
.', and it doesn't make any sense.

> The merge.defaultToUpstream configuration does not change that, does
> it?

It changes the equation 'git pull' = 'git fetch' + 'git merge'.

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Felipe Contreras