Re: [RFC doc] Tracking git.git

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2021, 22:47 UTC
Message-ID: <609dac9c16814_42a020839@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20210513144930.GC11882@localhost>

dwh@ wrote:

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> On 13.05.2021 20:05, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >But tracking seen is more like tracking linux-next. We do NOT use git
> >pull because often doing so will try to merge origin (upstream) with
> >our local version, which are divergent and most likely will end with
> >conflict.  Instead, we do git fetch first followed by resetting to
> >upstream by git reset --hard origin/seen.
> >
> >Should the fact above be documented? And on what file the fact should
> >be placed? In INSTALL?
> 
> I vote yes. I was trying out tracking the different branches and got
> bitten by this very situation (tons of conflicts) when pulling seen.

git pull is evil.

For more than a decade we've had unending debates about how to fix it, and nothing comes out of them (last one being [1]).

Just don't use it, and tell your friends to not use it.

Always do `git fetch` plus either one of these:

 1. git merge --ff-only
 2. git rebase
 3. git merge --no-ff
 4. git reset --hard @{upstream}

Cheers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201208002648.1370414-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/

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Felipe Contreras