{"thread":{"id":"56050","subject":"Blog post: git update: the odyssey for a sensible git pull","startedAt":"2021-07-05T15:28:30Z","lastAt":"2021-07-05T15:28:30Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Felipe Contreras"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"429245","messageId":"60e325175e689_1baed32081c@natae.notmuch","threadId":"56050","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Blog post: git update: the odyssey for a sensible git pull","fromName":"Felipe Contreras","fromEmail":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","sentAt":"2021-07-05T15:28:23Z","receivedAt":"2021-07-05T15:28:30Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8358?v=4"},"body":"Hello,\n\nAs I mentioned in my `git update` patch series [1], I spent several days\nre-reading old threads looking for anything related to `git pull` and\nfast-forward throughout the entire history of the git mailing list.\n\nI documented everything that I found of interest, and the result is a\npretty lengthy article.\n\nLong story short: a new `git update` command fixes all the issues people\nhave been reporting for almost a decade now.\n\nEven if it's not a particularly interesting read, it's a good reference\nthat records all the attempts that have been made, along with many ideas\nand proposals.\n\nhttps://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/git-update/\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210705123209.1808663-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/\n\n-- \nFelipe Contreras\n"}]}