From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 15:45:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Pull is Mostly Evil
Message-ID: <87k3a4xjzg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <5363BB9F.40102@xiplink.com>

Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:

> To that end, I suggest that pull's default behaviour should be to do
> *nothing*.  It should just print out a message to the effect that it
> hasn't been configured, and that the user should run "git help pull"
> for guidance.

Fetching is uncontentious, and I _think_ that fast-forwards are pretty
uncontentious as well.

It's just when the merge-left/merge-right/rebase-left/rebase-right
decision kicks in that prescribing one git-pull behavior looks like a
recipe for trouble.

-- 
David Kastrup