Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

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[hanwen@haring y]$ git pull ../x
fatal: Needed a single revision
Pulling into a black hole?

Having said all that, I happen to think that this particular
case of pulling into void could deserve to be special cased to
pretend it is a fast forward (after all, nothingness is an
ancestor of anything), if only to make new people's first
experience more pleasant.

Working from nothingness is something not usually done in
everyday work, so from practical and technical point of view it
does not add much _real_ value to the people who actually uses
the system, but nevertheless, new people typically start
learning the system from either cloned repository (which I
believe is covered by the existing tools fairly well) or
emptiness (which bitten us here in a bad way), and making the
first experience more pleasnt to new people have a positive
value of flattening the learning curve.

So please consider that this is classified as a bug.