Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I would rather say "use 'git branch' to make sure if you are
>>>> ready to merge". Who teaches not to use "git pull"?
>>>
>>> We do that for Wine. The problem is that we recommend using git-rebase
>>> to make it easier for occasional developers to keep a clean history,
>>> and rebase and pull interfere badly.
>>
>> What about proposed (and I think not accepted) merge strategy
>> "rebase" (formerly called "subordinate" or something like that)?
>
> That sounds very interesting. Has it ever been implemented, or only
> discussed?
There was some implementation with warts
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/30068
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which didn't got corrected and resent.
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Jakub Narebski