Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 15, 2006, 18:28 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> But the fact is, git isn't really that hard to work out, and the commands > aren't that complicated. There's no reason to rename them. We do have > other problems: > > - default branch selection for merging is broken (it should definitely > take the current branch into account). When I do "git pull" with no > branch specification, and I happen to be on a branch that is associated > with something else than "master" in the remote, I shouldn't merge with > master.
This problem is _slightly_ migitated by branch.<name>.merge config variable. Slightly because you have to specify branch to merge, instead of forbidding merge if you are not on specific branch (and you don't override it).
> - I agree that having to create temporary branches to just look at a tag > that you don't want to actually develop on is just unnecessarily > bothersome.
Agreed.
-- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git