From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:11:09 GMT Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)? Message-ID: <7vll3p82ma.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20050729122844.GA21909@pasky.ji.cz> Petr Baudis writes: >> > How would that document anything normal push wouldn't? >> >> git-merge? > > You have to git-merge anyway if remote head is not your ancestor yet, > otherwise the push cannot proceed. Indeed. And if git-merge fast forwards, then you would not get any trail, so the "documentation by merge" argument does not stand.