Re: defaults for where to merge from

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2007, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703010010o24513f60x937b5af52362e0c8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45E68897.8000607@lu.unisi.ch>

On 3/1/07, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com> wrote:

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>  > which everyone hated. With this change it will not that blindly,
>  > but still unexpectedly jump to some remote branch.
>  >
>  >> However, with the proposed behaviour, more new users would get less
>  >> "Huh?" experiences.
>  >
>  > yes, it will be the old users who'd get the experiences. What do they
>  > do, edit out unwanted tracking from .git/config everytime a branch
>  > from remote is created?
>
> If everyone hated the old behavior, old users should already be careful
> about not git-pull'ing (without options) from any branch but master.  So
> they won't see any difference.

except for .git/config growing uncontrollably

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