From: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:05:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Git user survey and `git pull`
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:

>   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.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs