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Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 5, 2014, 18:15 UTC
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Richard Hansen wrote:
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> On 2014-05-03 06:00, John Szakmeister wrote:
> > FWIW, at my company, we took another approach.  We introduced a `git
> > ffwd` command that fetches from all remotes, and fast-forwards all
> > your local branches that are tracking a remote, and everyone on the
> > team uses it all the time.  It should be said this team also likes to
> > use Git bare-metal, because they like knowing how things work
> > out-of-the-box.  But they all use the command because it's so
> > convenient.
> 
> I also wrote a script to fast-forward all local branches to their
> configured upstream refs.  I finally got around to uploading it
> somewhere public:
> 
>    https://github.com/richardhansen/git-update-branch
> 
> I use it in my 'git up' alias:
> 
>    git config --global alias.up \
>        '!git remote update -p; git update-branch -a'
> 
> If there's interest I can tweak the style to conform to
> Documentation/CodingGuidelines and stick it in contrib/ or something.

I think this would fit perfectly in the proposed `git update` command as an option: `git update --all`.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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  23. Felipe ContrerasMay 6, 2014
  24. Richard HansenMay 3, 2014
  25. David KastrupMay 3, 2014
  26. Felipe ContrerasMay 3, 2014
  27. David KastrupMay 3, 2014
  28. David LangMay 4, 2014
  29. Felipe ContrerasMay 4, 2014
  30. David KastrupMay 4, 2014
  31. James DenholmMay 4, 2014
  32. David KastrupMay 4, 2014
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  36. Felipe ContrerasMay 3, 2014
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  42. Felipe ContrerasMay 4, 2014
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  44. Felipe ContrerasMay 5, 2014
  45. Max KirillovMay 7, 2014
  46. John SzakmeisterMay 3, 2014
  47. Richard HansenMay 5, 2014
  48. Felipe ContrerasMay 5, 2014
  49. Philip OakleyMay 2, 2014
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