Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

Philip Oakley wrote:

From: "David Kastrup" <redacted>

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Marc Branchaud [off-list ref] writes:

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To that end, I suggest that pull's default behaviour should be to do
*nothing*.  It should just print out a message to the effect that it
hasn't been configured, and that the user should run "git help pull"
for guidance.

Fetching is uncontentious, and I _think_ that fast-forwards are pretty
uncontentious as well.

While the fast forward is /pretty/ uncontentious, it still maybe 
contentious for some.

So? No defaults can please absolutely everyone, the best anybody can do
is try to please the majority of people, and merging fast-forwards only
does that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras