From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:35:23 GMT Subject: Re: git pull suggestion Message-ID: <7vpr24jqw4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Aghiles writes: > On Sun, Apr 11, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> ... >> >> The other answer would initially appear a bit sad, but after you think >> about it, it would turn into an enlightenment, especially for people whose >> brains have rotten from years and years of CVS/SVN use. > > My brain was rotten even _before_ CVS/SVN use, so you can picture > the damage. Please don't take that too seriously; it was just me imitating these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/LinusTalk200705Transcript ;-) >> ... so I'll leave that as an exercise >> to the readers but will leave a pictorial hint. > > Before I start thinking I already have a question (which says a lot about > my thinking capacity): can't git detect this problematic case? The pictorial hint is to illustrate that the case is not necessarily problematic.