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Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"

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SSStephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
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May 8, 2014, 00:45 UTC
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I'll create a patch.
On Wednesday, May 07, 2014 01:51:04 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org> writes:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Junio C Hamano
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:16 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
> >> 
> >> No.  This is most often true for people who use a single repository as a
> >> place for everybody to meet, in the same way as SVN.
> > [snip lots of excellent detail]
> >> HTH.
> >
> > Wow.  That helps tremendously, and should be incorporated somewhere in the
> > Git documentation.  Thank you for your immensely detailed response.
> 
> We used to collect useful list postings in Documentation/howto/;
> perhaps somebody wants to do the minimum copyediting of the message
> and send a patch?
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Message 7 of 11 in “Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"”
  1. Jim GarrisonMay 7, 2014
  2. David KastrupMay 7, 2014
  3. Jeff KingMay 7, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2014
  5. Jim GarrisonMay 7, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2014
  7. Stephen & Linda SmithMay 8, 2014
  8. How to keep a project's canonical history correct.Stephen P. Smith, May 9, 2014
  9. Stephen SmithMay 9, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2014
  11. Stephen & Linda SmithMay 10, 2014

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