Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:

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I've taught the same fetch first, then merge strategy.  Nobody I
know in meat-space pulls from a remote URL and merges in one shot;

Actually, with different people involved it's _much_ better to do it in 
one shot.

Why? Because doing a separate "fetch to local space" + "merge from local 
space" actually loses the information on what you are merging.

It's a lot more useful to have a merge message like

	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6

than one like

	Merge branch 'for-linus'

That is an implementation detail that should be easily overcome once the 
notion of tracking branch with URL attribute is implemented.  Then it 
will be really easy to notice whether the branch argument is a local 
branch or a tracking branch with remote reference.