On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:40:20PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:03:27PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:18:06PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > The thing is, a merge can fail. And then you already need direct access > > > > to the working directory in question. > > > > > > > > If you were actually talking about fast-forward pushes (because you did > > > > the merge locally already), this might help you: > > > > > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110251 > > > > > > Sounds good. But it looks like this patch is unlikely to be merged, does > > > it not? > > > > Unlikely to be merged by Junio? Without success stories, certainly. > > > > But you can do the same as I did: run your local Git with that patch. I > > am actually growing fonder and fonder of denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead. > > It works beautifully here. > > > > Of course, I always know what I am doing. > > > > Ciao, > > Dscho > > > > P.S.: :-) > > So here's a success story: > > I have been using this patch for 1 month now, on all my trees, with > denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead > I find it very useful for several reasons: > - I commit on my development machine, then push to test machine > - I debug and fix an issue on test machine, push change back to devel machine > - If I'm going from home to the office, I just push into the machine at the office, and when > I get there the tree is set up and ready for me to hack on, same on my way back > > Of course all the same things can be accomplished with a set of scripts, > but frankly I never got them to be as flexible and easy to use as this > patch. This patch simply works for me. Thanks for it Johannes, and I > hope it makes it into upstream at some point, so that more people can > benefit from it. Hey, Johannes, so .. how about trying to push it out to Junio? Maybe if this lands in pu more people will try it and there will be more success stories? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html