From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:56:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Default remote branch for local branch
Message-ID: <4430D517.5020205@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <200604030128.42680.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 
> 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.

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