Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Linus Torvalds escreveu:

The fact that we can do "git clone" on the _receiving_ side is an 
assymmetry, but it's not gratutous: when receiving we don't need any extra 
permissions or setup to create a new archive. In contrast, when sending, 
you do have to have that "get permission to create new archive" phase.

quoted

 - pull = merge + fetch, but no command for merge + throw

Again, this is not gratuitous, and the reason is very similar: when you 
pull, you're pulling into something that _you_ control and _you_ have 

But "push" and "pull" _fundamentally_ aren't symmetric operations, and you 
simply cannot possibly make them symmetric. 

Point taken;  thank you. 

In that case, we're full circle with the command naming issues. Push
and pull are fundamentally asymmetric operations, but then a
consistent UI would dictate that they wouldn't be named symmetrically,
as they are now.


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