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Re: Branch relationships

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 15, 2006, 02:11 UTC
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<7vbqu0xcjk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<200605150348.53879.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:
> But not supporting this in a first step should be no problem, as
> you always can do "git pull somewhere that-head" directly.

That defeats the point of .git/remotes/ setup, and I suspect is unacceptable to people who pull from a given branch of a given repository repeatedly without ever tracking it. Think of the maintainer pulling from subsystem maintainers.

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Message 21 of 21 in “git diff: support "-U" and "--unified" options properly”
  1. Linus TorvaldsMay 13, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 13, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 13, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006
  11. Martin LanghoffMay 14, 2006
  12. Josef WeidendorferMay 14, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2006
  14. Branch relationships (was:Re: git diff: support "-U" and "--unified" options properly)Josef Weidendorfer, May 14, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2006
  16. Josef WeidendorferMay 14, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2006
  18. Josef WeidendorferMay 14, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2006
  20. Josef WeidendorferMay 15, 2006
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006

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