git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Default remote branch for local branch

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Apr 3, 2006, 07:56 UTC
Message-ID
<4430D517.5020205@op5.se>
In-Reply-To
<200604030128.42680.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
Show 5 quoted lines
> 
> Optionally, branching <new> off from <old> could add <new> as
> topic branch of <old>: Thus, if you are on <old> and do git-pull,
> you get <new> merged in.
>

This is clearly insane. If I'm on <old> and want to sync with my upstream source that would be impossible without explicitly telling it *not* to merge with <new>. Iow, this change would (possibly) simplify for the one repo maintainer, but make things harder for the 30-odd developers.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231
Previous: Josef WeidendorferNext: Josef Weidendorfer
Message 7 of 15 in “Default remote branch for local branch”
  1. Pavel RoskinApr 1, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2006
  3. Pavel RoskinApr 1, 2006
  4. Josef WeidendorferApr 2, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2006
  6. Josef WeidendorferApr 2, 2006
  7. Andreas EricssonApr 3, 2006
  8. Josef WeidendorferApr 3, 2006
  9. Andreas EricssonApr 3, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2006
  11. Josef WeidendorferApr 3, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisApr 14, 2006
  13. Josef WeidendorferApr 14, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiApr 1, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiApr 1, 2006

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.