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Re: git pull for update of netdev fails.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 20, 2006, 16:33 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0609200927260.4388@g5.osdl.org>
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<20060920161825.GR8259@pasky.or.cz>
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
>   I argue that this safety valve is useless for most people (and
> actually I have hard time imagining a plausible scenario in which it
> actually _is_ useful).

It is only useless for people who use git ass a read-only "anonymous CVS" kind of thing.

And yes, that may be "most people", but dammit, it's not the group git has been designed for.

I would be ok with a "anonymous read-only" approach IF GIT ACTUALLY ENFORCED IT. In other words, we could easily have a read-only clone that added the "+" to all branches, but then we should also make sure that nobody ever commits _anything_ in such a repo.

No merges (because you can not rely on the merge result being meaningful: the sources of the merge may be "ephemeral"), no local commits (because you can never "pull" any more after that, since that now becomes a merge with something you can't trust any more).

In other words, if you default to the "+" behaviour, you basically can do _nothing_ in that repository except just track the other end.

Is that useful? Potentially. But it's so clearly inferior to what we have now that you should definitely realize that we're not talking about a full git repository any more, we're really talking about just a "git tracker".

		Linus
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  1. Stephen HemmingerSep 20, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  10. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  11. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  13. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2006
  15. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  16. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  17. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  18. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  19. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  20. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  21. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  22. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  24. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  25. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  26. Shawn PearceSep 23, 2006
  27. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  28. Catalin MarinasSep 23, 2006
  29. Catalin MarinasSep 23, 2006
  30. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
  31. Catalin MarinasSep 25, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2006
  33. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  34. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  35. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  36. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  37. Shawn PearceSep 20, 2006
  38. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2006
  39. Krzysztof HalasaSep 20, 2006
  40. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  41. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  42. Johannes SchindelinSep 21, 2006
  43. Jeff GarzikSep 20, 2006

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