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Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] pull: trivial cleanups

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
May 16, 2013, 10:18 UTC
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
> It doesn't matter if you think it's a bad practice or not, 'git push
> --mirror' works, and it's possible to update a branch even if HEAD is
> point to it. There should be a possibility to do the same with 'git
> fetch'.
So, introduce a configuration variable to turn off this safety feature?
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Message 10 of 28 in “New kind of upstream branch: downstream branch”
  1. 0/3 New kind of upstream branch: downstream branchFelipe Contreras, May 16, 2013
  2. 1/3 remote: don't override default if cur head remote is '.'Felipe Contreras, May 16, 2013
  3. 2/3 pull: trivial cleanupsFelipe Contreras, May 16, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  5. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  7. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  9. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  11. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  12. Antoine PelisseMay 16, 2013
  13. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  14. 3/3 push: add separate 'downstream' branchFelipe Contreras, May 16, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2013
  16. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2013
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  20. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  21. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  22. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  23. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  24. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  25. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  26. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  27. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 16, 2013
  28. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013

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