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Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 7, 2014, 20:51 UTC
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Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org> writes:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Junio C Hamano
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
>> 
>> No.  This is most often true for people who use a single repository as a
>> place for everybody to meet, in the same way as SVN.
> [snip lots of excellent detail]
>> HTH.
>
> Wow.  That helps tremendously, and should be incorporated somewhere in the
> Git documentation.  Thank you for your immensely detailed response.

We used to collect useful list postings in Documentation/howto/; perhaps somebody wants to do the minimum copyediting of the message and send a patch?

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Message 6 of 11 in “Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"”
  1. Jim GarrisonMay 7, 2014
  2. David KastrupMay 7, 2014
  3. Jeff KingMay 7, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2014
  5. Jim GarrisonMay 7, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2014
  7. Stephen & Linda SmithMay 8, 2014
  8. How to keep a project's canonical history correct.Stephen P. Smith, May 9, 2014
  9. Stephen SmithMay 9, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2014
  11. Stephen & Linda SmithMay 10, 2014

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