From: Matthieu Moy Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:55:30 GMT Subject: Re: Dropping '+' from fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Shawn Pearce writes: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:35, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> By asking users to explicitely say "yes, I know, this branch can be >> rewond", we also ask them to think about it before making a mistake. >> >> That said, enabling the check by default may also become painful. I'd >> vote for a configuration option, defaulting to the current behavior for >> now. Then we can try living with it for a while and see how painful it >> is. > > I suspect the vast majority of branches in the wild do not rewind > under normal conditions. Users who work against branches that rewind > (e.g. those of us basing on a topic in pu) Err, I don't think it's about people basing their work on pu, but rather about anybody fetching from pu, i.e. everybody calling "git fetch" or "git pull" in their clone. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/