Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

From: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Date: Nov 26, 2007, 19:50 UTC
Message-ID: <87ve7ozsz8.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071126193455.GC25784@efreet.light.src>

Jan Hudec writes:

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> The basic pull/push actions are:
>
> git pull: Bring the remote ref value here.
> git push: Put the local ref value there.
>
> Are those not oposites?
>
> Than each command has it's different features on top of this -- pull merges
> and push can push multiple refs -- but in the basic operation they are
> oposites.

I think that is in absolute agreement with David: Ducks swim on the surface of the water and lobsters swim underneath. Why consider the different features on top of where they swim?

The thing about git-pull that surprises so many users is the merge. There's a separate command to do that step, and git-pull had a fairly good excuse to do the merge before git's 1.5.x remote system was in place, but now the only really defensible reason for its behavior is history.

Michael Poole