Re: Git rescue mission

On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 14:13:47 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

quoted

However, I still have a few open issues with the other branch of this
discussion, i.e., why can we not have an update operation that
respects branches in the first place, as 'git pull' seems to do, when
run from the master branch?

Actually, git does that all correctly for other branches too, but only in 
git-1.5.

...
So it might be worth while trying out git-1.5.0-rc4, and seeing if that 
solves some of the UI issues for you guys. It changes things like where 
the default remote branches are, and makes the distinction between "my 
local copy of branch X" and "the remote branch X" much clearer, which has 
clearly been a UI problem.

Ok, very reasonable.  I've been our corporate guinea pig, so I'll give
this a whirl.  One thing I'm very, very happy about in git is the
ability to quickly experiment.  Believe it or not, I have solved
actual git problems in our company by doing just that.  Of necessity,
it's largely my complaints and problems that are aired here, though.


Bill