Re: git pull opinion

From: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 6, 2007, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <3abd05a90711052230y4d6151c6o3e7985a0c8e18161@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18223.46848.109961.552827@lisa.zopyra.com>

> 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.

BitKeeper, for example, does a merge with a "dirty" directory. I am not saying that git should behave the same way but I think that this argument strengthens the point that it is not a "centralized repository" mindset.

- Aghiles.

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