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[PATCH 0/2] Avoid suggestions to "merge" remote changes

From
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date
Jul 7, 2013, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID
<cover.1373223663.git.john@keeping.me.uk>

As another aspect of the change to make git-pull die when remote changes do not fast-forward, this series changes the advice messages in git-push to avoid implying that the user wants to merge remote changes.

I've chosen the word "integrate" because it does not carry any special meaning in Git (in terms of being a command) and seems to cover the merge and rebase cases nicely.

John Keeping (2):
  push: avoid suggesting "merging" remote changes
  pull: change the description to "integrate" changes
 Documentation/git-pull.txt |  2 +-
 builtin/push.c             | 12 ++++++------
 git-pull.sh                |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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1.8.3.2.855.gbc9faed
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  1. 0/2 Avoid suggestions to "merge" remote changesJohn Keeping, Jul 7, 2013
  2. 1/2 push: avoid suggesting "merging" remote changesJohn Keeping, Jul 7, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoyJul 8, 2013
  4. John KeepingJul 8, 2013
  5. 2/2 pull: change the description to "integrate" changesJohn Keeping, Jul 7, 2013

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