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Re: Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?

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MSMartin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
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Apr 19, 2005, 10:05 UTC
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On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:55AM CEST, I got a letter
> where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
>
> Dunno. I do it personally all the time, with git at least.
> 
> What do others think? :-)
> 

I think pull is pull. If you are doing lots of local stuff and do not want it overwritten, it should have been in a forked branch.

> I start to like the pull/update distinction, and I think I'll go for it.
> 
-- 
Martin Schlemmer
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  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
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  6. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  8. Daniel BarkalowApr 17, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  10. Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?David A. Wheeler, Apr 19, 2005
  11. David GreavesApr 19, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  13. Martin SchlemmerApr 19, 2005
  14. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  15. Jon SeymourApr 19, 2005
  16. Martin SchlemmerApr 19, 2005
  17. Daniel BarkalowApr 19, 2005
  18. David A. WheelerApr 19, 2005
  19. Daniel BarkalowApr 19, 2005
  20. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  21. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  22. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
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  24. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  25. David MansfieldApr 20, 2005
  26. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  27. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  28. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
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