Re: git pull for update of netdev fails.
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>> Seamless support is there and Linus described how without
>> breaking the usual "if not fast forward you may lose some
>> patches so be extra careful" safety valve.
>
> 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). The support is not really seamless since you have
> to make manual changes to refspecs, while most people probably don't
> understand them (and shouldn't be required to if they are just tracking
> someone else anyway).
Or you can always pull with the --force option...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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