From: Felipe Contreras Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:31:06 GMT Subject: Re: Pull is Evil Message-ID: <5361416a172fe_f9b15012ec7e@nysa.notmuch> In-Reply-To: Matthieu Moy wrote: > Felipe Contreras writes: > > > Marc Branchaud wrote: > >> But I'm definitely biased because I think pull is pretty much broken: > >> > >> * New users are encouraged to use pull, but all too often the default > >> fetch-then-merge behaviour doesn't match their expectations and they end up > >> starting threads like this one on the mailing list. > > > > Yes, this has been discussed many times in the past, and everyone agrees > > the default behavior is not correct. > > You definitely have a strange notion of "everyone". Do I? Let's look at some of the discussions: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/225146 * W. Trevor King agrees the default should change * Junio C Hamano agrees the default should change * John Keeping agrees the default should change * Matthieu Moy doesn't agree anything should change * Linus Torvalds agrees changing the default is fine http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233554 * Richard Hansen agrees with my proposal * Ramkumar Ramachandra agrees with my proposal * Brian M. Carlson is not happy but can live with my proposal * Jeff King accepts my proposal is a good way to move forward * Matthieu Moy is OK with change, but only if the default remains the same So, by "everyone" I mean everyone but one person (you). Rational people don't think in absolute terms, "everyone" means virtually everyone, which is the case. -- Felipe Contreras