From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:17:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-fetch: mega-terse fetch output
Message-ID: <20071019211755.GC751@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710191058570.19446@xanadu.home>

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:03:00AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Well, the important thing is that the _content_ is moving from the 
> remote repository to the local one.  That's how the arrow should be 
> interpreted conceptually.  The fact that technically we end up assigning 
> the local ref with the remote value is a technical issue.

If the _content_ is moving from the remote repository to the local
one, I would think the arrow should be pointing from the remote
repoistory to the local one, i.e.:

  * 895be02..2fe5433   next <- spearce/next

But right now we are proposing:

  * 895be02..2fe5433   next -> spearce/next

I would think the former makes more sense is the content is going
*from* spearce/next into the local next branch.

This isn't a huge deal, but these tiny things make a large amount of
difference in usability for the novice who just getting started with
git....

						- Ted