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Re: git pull behavior changed?

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AAghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 22, 2010, 00:13 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010, Jeff King wrote:
> What was the old version of git? A long time ago (maybe 1.5.x or
> earlier?) we used to default unconfigured pulls differently.

I don't have the information handy but it was most probably pre-1.5. I don't know if my 'branching habits' are common, but I found that the old behavior to be more natural with the way we work (creating branches for quick parallel work).

If the current behavior is here to stay, I would humbly suggest to mention the 'git checkout -b x origin' syntax in the manual (and 'git branch --track x origin').

On a positive note, I would like to say that there is a good progress regarding the messages git prints to guide the user. That is helpful.

  -- aghiles
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