From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:49:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward
Message-ID: <7v1vnk3vgc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8whsawjs.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> If you read "Integrate them with your changes" and understand that it is
>> talking about "git pull" or "git pull --rebase", then you do not have to
>> read the doc.  It should "click".
>
> But what's the point is being so vague, while you could just add "(see
> git pull)"? See what you've just wrote: one should "understand that it
> is about ...". So, why write Y thinking that the user should
> understand that it is about X while you could write X directly?

In order to cover both "pull" and "pull --rebase"?