Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkmb9rgx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611160932340.3349@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> (And the real reason for that is simple: "git pull" simply wants to have 
>> something to _start_ with. It's not hugely fundamental, it's just how it 
>> was written).
>
> Here's a very lightly tested patch that allows you to use "git pull" to 
> populate an empty repository.
>
> I'm not at all sure this is necessarily the nicest way to do it, but it's 
> fairly straightforward.
>
> Junio, what do you think?

Yeah, I talked about making "merge" treat missing HEAD as a special case of fast forward, but I like yours better. It is a lot cleaner and to the point.

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