From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 17:17:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] t4013: call git-merge instead of git-pull
Message-ID: <xmqqk2wkqpc9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <a2c6df723ca5237c094ab4002e45a834@www.dscho.org>

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Both this patch and 9/12 change `git pull` invocations to equivalent
> non-pull ones, but I wonder whether it would not be a better idea to
> leave them as-are, so that we can make sure that scripts out there
> that might use similar `git pull` invocations would be unaffected by
> the rewrite?

Yes.  I do not mind changing t4013 that is not about testing 'git pull'
to lose 'git pull . other-branch', but then we would want to have a
corresponding test somewhere in the test script that is about
testing 'git pull' to cover that (ancient) pattern of use.

Thanks.