Re: Pull is Evil
- From
W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
- Date
- May 2, 2014, 14:54 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20140502145433.GF28634@odin.tremily.us>
- In-Reply-To
- <5362f1755f2a9_d1310572f0fa@nysa.notmuch>
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:14:29PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> W. Trevor King wrote: > > My proposed --prompt behavior is for folks who think “I often run > > this command without thinking it through all the way. I'm also > > not used to reading Git's output and using 'reset --hard' with the > > reflog to reverse changes. Instead of trusting me to only say > > what I mean or leaving me to recover from mistakes, please tell me > > what's about to change and let me opt out if I've changed my > > mind.” > > Unfortunately those folks by definition wouldn't know about the > --prompt option.
But once such folks are identified, you just have to convince them (once) to set the pull.prompt config. That's a lot easier than convincing them (for every pull) to set the appropriate ff flag.
Cheers, Trevor
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