Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:
> >  * Don't use the name "origin" twice.  In fact, don't use it at all.  In
> > a distributed system there is no such thing as a true origin.
>
> I agree, sort of.  Not because"origin" is ambigous as a name.  But
> rather because there is a magic translation from "master" to "origin",
> and I think this is wrong to do that.
>
> As mentioned elsewhere (and let's start using "get" instead of "pull" as
> suggested by Johannes), a "get" should probably always create a branch
> group even if it contains only one branch.  This way the remote branch
> called "master" will still be called "master" locally, under the branch
> group used to represent the remote repository.  And if a local name is
> not provided then let's just call it "default".  This way, amongst the
> remote references, there would be a "default/master" that would be used
> when nothing else is provided by the user. So...
>
> 	git get repo.com/time_machine.git
>
> would create a local branch named "remotes/default/master" if the remote
> repo has only a master branch.