Re: Making note, in the repository, of push/pull relationships
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:49:33AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Carl Baldwin wrote:
>
> > Somewhere in the thread something was mentioned about maintaining
> > <local branch>:<remote branch> pairs in the git repository when pushes
> > and pulls are performed. I think the argument was actually against
> > keeping this information and ultimately against allowing pushes to a
> > branch of a different name.
>
> I think the loudest voice was mine :-)
>
> Actually, I was not against *keeping* the information, but against
> *pulling* in such strange ways. If "cross-pulling" is allowed, I am all
> for keeping track of that.
So, just a question. What, exactly, is meant by 'cross-pulling'?
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> In the meantime, I did not think about the issue at all :-) However, as is
> often the case in an open discussion, I think I was wrong after all. There
> may be cases you want that, and in the end, nobody forces me to use that
> feature.
>
> Anyway, Junio decided to enhance the fetch mechanism to support the
> cross-pulling (and also multi-pulling).
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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