Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Michael K. Edwards <medwards.linux@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 02:27 UTC
Message-ID: <f2b55d220611141827m5ebe27bfvf59eb04fd5b20cfc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b8ltq7r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

I would kind of like to see "git poll" -- visit all remote branches, fetching objects and tags into the local repository, so that I can inspect changes off-line and merge, cherry-pick, etc. to my heart's content. That would fit the platform integrator's workflow nicely -- "git poll" into a tracking tree, do some merges there (such as backporting a subsystem to a "stable" base kernel), then merge this backport branch to each platform working copy and cherry-pick other changes as necessary.

Cheers,

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