From: Eugene Sajine Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:43:22 GMT Subject: Re: origin/branchname and tracking branch pointing to different commits? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100608183007.GA31293@coredump.intra.peff.net> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:27:14PM -0400, Eugene Sajine wrote: > >> I'm coming back to this topic as i see some confusion growing about >> such behavior. Every now and then users come across this problem and >> they expect pull to *really* behave as fetch and merge so it will >> cause the update of remote/branchname branch. And it is kind of >> difficult to justify why they have to do git fetch after pull... >> >> Can somebody, please, take a look? > > This was discussed a while back: > >  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/127163 > > and I even posted a patch, but never followed up (I think mostly just > due to being busy).. There is some concern about unexpected ref updates, > though. > > -Peff > Jeff, Junio Could you, please, advise if there is any resolution on the patch? Thanks a lot, Eugene