Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

Jeff King wrote:

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:55:01PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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They can do:

% git pull origin master

That shouldn't revese the bases.

Then they have to remember to do that every time, no? That seems a
little error-prone versus setting a config option.

Yes. However, since not many people do this, and they don't do it that
often that's not a big deal.

It's much more important to fix the issue the vast majority of users
face constantly.

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Such users are going to run "git pull origin master" or just "git pull"
to get that merge.

I'd say the vast majority of users running "git pull" want the parents
reversed, the minority that doesn't can switch to "git pull origin
master" (or add a configuration).

I'm not sure I agree, but I don't think either of us has actual data.

Do you want me to go dig in the mailing list and point you to the
endless discussions?

I assure you, if this is not changed, we will have this discussion
again.

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Most likely the consensus and the proposals will be ignored and nothing
will change as usual, but that's a different thing.

Is it truly necessary to make sniping comments like this at the end of
each email? It _is_ being discussed right now, and these comments do
nothing except irritate your readers. Please stop.

And it has been discussed before. If history is any indication, it will
be discussed again.

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Felipe Contreras