From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:07:07 GMT
Subject: Re: defaults for where to merge from
Message-ID: <81b0412b0702281607l6f9b1cadg9f3a84b06b9acd7d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45E5DE8A.2080101@lu.unisi.ch>

On 2/28/07, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> wrote:
> > As is an option to disable the feature. I.e. for scripts, which create
> > branches
> > blindly, without knowing they working on a remote branch.
> > So, please, provide an option to do what git-checkout/git-branch did
> > before:
> > which is just create the branch, nothing more.
>
> This does create the branch and nothing more.

... except ...

> It sets up "git pull" to
> do the obvious thing, but does not do anything more.  The branch is left
> in the same state than without the patch.  So the scripts will still
> work unless they create branches blindly, and blindly do a "git pull"
> expecting it to do the unobvious thing.

Well, I find it unobvious for pull to magically starting merging.
Perhaps I'm using branch configuration in .git/config for too long,
and actually expect nothing to be merged if there is no appropriate
branch configuration.