From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Michael K. Edwards" Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:27:52 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87k61yt1x2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <455A1137.8030301@shadowen.org> <87hcx1u934.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <87bqn9u43s.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vbqn9y6w6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v3b8ltq7r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lcZb08Lt60oWTjyfIQr5+Dci2aJW3+CWa7PAsADCeGQ1V0C1TKwEgHmUzE2ap45C2D06SCh8wngSjbZMj6YKtCXbhJCMrxClnXx2+XAqP3/s3qqdDHY0cydreHrdNx9fzV+7TePdpqHrzoOWaK+tYFoTwimGW9sVEXgRXqw+GkA= In-Reply-To: <7v3b8ltq7r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkAVK-00057Q-1Z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:27:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754363AbWKOC1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:27:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754376AbWKOC1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:27:54 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:63992 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754360AbWKOC1x (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:27:53 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so45380wxc for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr1856923agy.1163557672612; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.25.4 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:27:52 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org I would kind of like to see "git poll" -- visit all remote branches, fetching objects and tags into the local repository, so that I can inspect changes off-line and merge, cherry-pick, etc. to my heart's content. That would fit the platform integrator's workflow nicely -- "git poll" into a tracking tree, do some merges there (such as backporting a subsystem to a "stable" base kernel), then merge this backport branch to each platform working copy and cherry-pick other changes as necessary. Cheers,