Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP082D56B2460EFED9DA6D3BAEE90@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611160924250.3349@woody.osdl.org>

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:30:47 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> Yeah. Each branch should
> 
>  (a) have a "default source" initialized on the initial "clone"
>
> (b) have a way to set the source afterwards
>
> (c) error out if you do just a "git pull" or "git pull remotename" if 
>     there is no default branch for the current local branch for that 
>     remote.

This would be _great_. You just shouldn't have to hack at the .git/config file to get reasonable default sources after a clone. Or even for that matter after fetching a new branch into an existing repo.

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