Re: Pull is Evil

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2014, 08:14 UTC
Message-ID: <536353dfa270b_609874930cae@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20140502071655.GA6288@inner.h.apk.li>

Andreas Krey wrote:

> My personal beef with 'git pull' is still that sometimes (namely in
> the 'git pull && git push' sequence) it should reverse the order of
> the parents in the merge commit, so that *my* commits look like an
> integrated topic branch, instead of the former mainline.

I haven't really thought much about this but it does make sense. How about changing the behavior so `git pull` by default changes the order of the parents, but `git pull repo branch` doesn't.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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