Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 00:52 UTC
Message-ID: <455D07C1.1090207@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611161623170.3349@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds escreveu:

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> The fact that we can do "git clone" on the _receiving_ side is an 
> assymmetry, but it's not gratutous: when receiving we don't need any extra 
> permissions or setup to create a new archive. In contrast, when sending, 
> you do have to have that "get permission to create new archive" phase.
> 
>>  - pull = merge + fetch, but no command for merge + throw
> 
> Again, this is not gratuitous, and the reason is very similar: when you 
> pull, you're pulling into something that _you_ control and _you_ have

>But "push" and "pull" _fundamentally_ aren't symmetric operations, and you 
>simply cannot possibly make them symmetric.

Point taken;  thank you.

In that case, we're full circle with the command naming issues. Push and pull are fundamentally asymmetric operations, but then a consistent UI would dictate that they wouldn't be named symmetrically, as they are now.