What is missing from Git v2.0

Hi,

I had already given up on merging important features to Git upstream, and then one of the features I've had in git-fc (my fork) for quite some time suddenly got attention (the @{publish} branch), but everybody forgot I already did the work. So maybe there's other features in a similar situation.

= The publish tracking branch =

Git's triangular workflow support is definitely lacking, and although there are many ideas and workarounds, the simplest and most user-friendly way to fix the issues is by introducing the concept of a publish tracking branch, similar to the upstream tracking branch.

Fortunately this might actually get into v2.0.

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= Reject non-fast-forward pulls by default =

Many new-comers end up making merges by mistake when they pull because they don't understand what is a non-fast-forward and what they should actually be doing. Most people, even Linus Torvalds, agreed that by default `git pull` should fail and guide the user, instead of silently making a merge which might not be what the user wants (even though he doesn't know it), and messing up the project's history, which affects other people.

The patches were sent, the issues were addressed, people agreed, and yet nothing happened.

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= Use "stage" instead of "index" =

Everybody, and by everybody I literally mean everyone except Junio, have agreed that "index" is a horrible name of the high-level concept (not the actual index file) of the pace where the user drafts a commit. Different actions were proposed to move towards a saner name, and the simplest sensible one seems to be to start renaming the confusing --cached and --index options to --stage and --no-work, and also to add a new `git stage` command.

Nothing happened.

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= Default aliases =

Every single version control tool out there has default aliases (e.g. co = checkout) except Git.

Every argument against default aliases was basically refuted, yet my patches went nowhere. And the users still expect these aliases.

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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235981 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240030 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240030 [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235981 [5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233295 [6] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197111 [7] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166675 [8] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115666 [9] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235145