On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > I think its probably too late to change the UI[*1*] but I think > it is definately an issue for folks learning Git. Calling push > push, fetch fetch and fetch+merge pull is probably a design flaw. > IMHO it probably should have been something like: > > Current Shoulda Been > --------------- ---------------- > git-push git-push > git-fetch git-pull > git-pull . foo git-merge foo > git-pull git-pull --merge > git-merge git-merge-driver > > in other words pull does the download and doesn't automatically > start a merge unless --merge was also given and git-merge is a > cleaner wrapper around the Grand Unified Merge Driver that makes > it easier to start a merge. I must say that I second this. Although I'm rather familiar with GIT I still feel unconfortable with the current naming and behavior. Nicolas - 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