Re: [PATCH v2] push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Aug 10, 2009, 08:43 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq8whsawjs.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vljls7n4v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> If you read "Integrate them with your changes" and understand that it is
> talking about "git pull" or "git pull --rebase", then you do not have to
> read the doc.  It should "click".

But what's the point is being so vague, while you could just add "(see git pull)"? See what you've just wrote: one should "understand that it is about ...". So, why write Y thinking that the user should understand that it is about X while you could write X directly?

-- 
Matthieu

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