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Re: Useful tracking branches and auto merging

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2010, 17:48 UTC
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:30:22PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>> There's no magic involved, it's just what you would expect, what else
>> should 'git merge' (without arguments) do?
>
> I would expect it to do nothing, or just output a usage.

So you are not going to type this command, how can such change in behavior affect you?

> The
> proposed behavior is also unexpected because git-pull already does
> (almost) the same thing.

Not true. By your logic 'git fetch' should also do nothing because 'git pull' does "the same thing".

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Felipe Contreras
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Message 9 of 13 in “Useful tracking branches and auto merging”
  1. Felipe ContrerasOct 4, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 4, 2010
  3. Felipe ContrerasOct 4, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederOct 4, 2010
  5. Felipe ContrerasOct 4, 2010
  6. Clemens BuchacherOct 10, 2010
  7. Felipe ContrerasOct 10, 2010
  8. Clemens BuchacherOct 10, 2010
  9. Felipe ContrerasOct 10, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2010
  11. Felipe ContrerasOct 5, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2010
  13. Felipe ContrerasOct 7, 2010

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