From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 20:51:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Beginner question on "Pull is mostly evil"
Message-ID: <xmqqeh058g93.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E2730751C2AB2@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET>

Jim Garrison <jim.garrison@nwea.org> writes:

>> -----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?