Re: git pull opinion

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:36:16AM +0000, Bill Lear wrote:
> > On Monday, November 5, 2007 at 15:33:31 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
> > > Stop thinking like "I need to integrate the changes from upstream
> > > into my WIP to keep up to date."
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Once you get used to that, you would not have "a dirty directory"
> > > problem.
> > 
> > I respectfully beg to differ.  I think it is entirely reasonable, and
> > not a sign of "centralized" mindset, to want to pull changes others
> > have made into your dirty repository with a single command.
> 
>   I agree, I have such needs at work.  Here is how we (very informally)
> work: people push things that they believe could help other (a new
> helper function, a new module, a bug fix) in our master ASAP, but
> develop big complex feature in their repository and merge into master
> when it's ready.
> 
>   Very often we discuss some bugfix that is impeding people, or a
> most-wanted-API. Someone does the work, commits, I often want to merge
> master _directly_ into my current work-branch, because I want the
> fix/new-API/... whatever.