From: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+gmane@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:03:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Summary of the problems with git pull
Message-ID: <lkbf63$p8l$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <5366db742d494_18f9e4b308aa@nysa.notmuch>

Felipe Contreras  wrote in message
<5366db742d494_18f9e4b308aa@nysa.notmuch>:
> == git update ==
> 
> Another proposed solution is to have a new command: `git update`. This
> command would be similar to `git pull --ff-only` by default, but it
> could be configured to do merges instead, and when doing so in reverse.

Thanks for the nice summary.

As a user, I am very much in favor of adding a `git update` command. In
fact I already have a ruby script that does such a thing (fast-forward all my
local branches that have an upstream configured), so it would be nice to
have it directly in git core.