On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:

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Hi all,

While everyone is busy in two other UI threads, I figured I might as
well toss up another (probably) controversial topic.

Especially on IRC, we see many people who are some combination of
misunderstanding, misusing or overusing git-pull.  I figure this is
the result of several factors, notably

a) pull/push are not symmetric,

In a certain sense they are; they both update the branches local to one 
repository with the data from the other repository. In this sense, fetch 
is the oddity in that it doesn't update any repository's own branches, but 
just the local information about other repositories' branches.

BTW, shouldn't fetch be deprecated in favour of git remote update ?
(this may require adding some features to git remote update, but you get
the idea)

Mike