Re: Git user survey and `git pull`

From: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Date: Sep 22, 2006, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID: <ef1j6j$8sn$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060921162401.GD3934@spearce.org>

For what it's worth, I'm in favor of renaming the things.

IMHO, we do not need that kind of baggage. Sure, you explain it once and people hopefully remember -- except that they don't, not always anyway, and novice users can't be expected to be notice, let alone repair, that kind of damage.

*I* make that stupid pull/fetch/merge mistake sometimes, and I'm not exactly new to git...

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:24:01 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:

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>   Current            Shoulda Been
>   ---------------    ----------------
>   git-push           git-push
>   git-fetch          git-pull
>   git-pull . foo     git-merge foo
>   git-pull           git-pull --merge
>   git-merge          git-merge-driver
>

The new programs can (for the most part) recognize when they're called with "old" semantics, and spit out a warning.

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Matthias Urlichs