From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:16:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] remote: new show output style Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <499D82BC.7020500@xiplink.com> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:03, Marc Branchaud wrote: > Though I'm not really happy using "updates" when + is specified in the push > refspec. What, precisely, is a "non-fast forward update" anyway? Is it > essentially a rebase? If so, maybe "rebases onto remote " would be better > (again with a trailing space to get nice alignment). A non-fast forward update in terms of pushing means you overwrite whatever the remote currently has set as that branch's head. This can be desirable in a private repository or branch, but is usually not desired on shared branches. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier