Re: Git branching & pulling

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 19, 2007, 06:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vveepxr7m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <464E97A4.4050702@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I personally never understood why people would just want to say
>> "git pull" without saying anything else, but what described in
>> the DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section is how it works.
>>
>
> I do that all the time, e.g. when I'm syncing the satellite repo on my
> laptop with the mothership repo in my account on my company's
> server. The satellite only ever talks to the mothership and I am
> always interested in pulling down all the changes I've committed to
> the mothership during the day. So there's really no need to specify
> anything; I always want to keep the two fully in sync, and there's
> never any question about where I'm pulling from.
>
> I do a plain "git pull" in my clone of git.git too. I want all the
> latest updates and I'm only ever fetching them from the official git
> repo.

Ah, if you ever interact with only single remote repository, then that is certainly a valid reason not to say anything else.

And if you ever interact with only single branch of a single remote repository while on one branch, the current config scheme would let you do that on any branch.