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Re: bad git pull

From
Don Zickus <dzickus@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 16, 2005, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID
<68948ca0512160739g12a3e25en256bae8c354c3a45@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<7vu0d9lxx9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
> While I am sympathetic, this "Oops, I said pull when I meant
> fetch" sounds remotely similar to "oops, I said 'rm -r' when I
> meant to say 'ls -r'".  Is it that the tool is too fragile?
>

Sorry, wrong choice of words. Didn't mean to imply anything negative. Though, I am still learning the tool and its features, I do appreciate your feedback and your last email was correct in understanding the mess I created. I'll go read up on the differences between 'fetch' and 'pull'.

Cheers, Don

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