Re: Now What?

On Thursday 03 November 2005 23:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I wonder if it would make sense to have something in .git/remotes/
file that says "run merge only when I am on frotz branch", like
this:

        ~/git/git-core]cat .git/remotes/origin
        URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
        Pull: master:origin
	Fetch-Only-Unless: master

        ~/git/git-core]git-checkout maint
	~/git/git-core]git pull
	warning: not merging because you are not on 'master' branch.

This is quite limiting, if you keep multiple branches from origin in your
repository.
It would be better to be able to specify per-branch Pull lines. I.e. the
default pull action depends on the branch you are on.

        URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
        Pull(master): master:origin

        ~/git/git-core]git-checkout maint
 	~/git/git-core]git pull
 	warning: no default pull action for branch 'maint' specified

Syntax arguable.

Josef