Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:05:10PM CEST, I got a letter
where Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:55AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> >
> > Dunno. I do it personally all the time, with git at least.
> >
> > What do others think? :-)
> >
>
> I think pull is pull. If you are doing lots of local stuff and do not
> want it overwritten, it should have been in a forked branch.
I disagree. This already forces you to have two branches (one to pull
from to get the data, mirroring the remote branch, one for your real
work) uselessly and needlessly.
I think there is just no good name for what pull is doing now, and
update seems like a great name for what pull-and-merge really is. Pull
really is pull - it _pulls_ the data, while update also updates the
given tree. No surprises.
(We should obviously have also update-without-pull but that is probably
not going to be so common so a parameter for update (like -n) should be
fine for that.)
These naming issues may appear silly but I think they matter big time
for usability, intuitiveness, and learning curve (I don't want git-pasky
become another GNU arch).
Kind regards,
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
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