On 2009.10.20 19:56:01 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > But I don't really know; are there IRC logs you can quote or reference > with people making the mistake you're trying to help them avoid? "git pull" is kind of a jack of all trades WRT user errors, so I'll just pick up examples of all kinds, this might get long... [If you read this and find out that you're quoted/referenced here: I don't mean to blame or embarrass you, or to point out that you're stupid or whatever. Quite contrary, I just want to show how git's pull UI _might_ be responsible for your mistakes. The comments I made are purely my, possibly biased, reaction to what happened.] That said, here we go: 1) Unexpected fast-forward even with --no-ff "git pull --no-ff abc:abc" with "abc" being checked out. As pull explicitly allows fetches into the checked out branch head, this first fast-forwards abc, and updates the working tree/index. And then the --no-ff merge is a no-op. http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-20#l2080 (Should be a catchable special case, and the special --update-head-ok handling of "git pull" is from times where git didn't have remote tracking branches. I'd argue that that support should be dropped or at least disabled when you're using the modern setup, might be kept for oldtimers still using .git/remotes/*. Dunno...) 2) "git pull" taken as "reset --hard" git checkout -b foo; git pull origin bar The user actually just wanted to look at things and thus was ok with: git fetch origin; git checkout origin/bar http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-20#l1807 (user seemed to be so inclined to use "pull" that he initially didn't even realize that he didn't want to merge when I asked whether that's what he wants) 3) User expects "pull" to update all branch heads that have a configured upstream 08:31 dimsuz hi guys! suppose i'm currently on master. then run git fetch. which delivers updates to master and other branches. I don't merge anything, but do checkout some branch (which is not master). Question: will these new updates get into this branch automatically after i check it out? question2: will branch master contain those updates when i ckeck it out later? 08:32 Circuitsoft dimsuz. After a fetch, no. 08:33 Circuitsoft However, if you pull, any branches that were set up as local tracking branches will get updated. 08:33 Circuitsoft Otherwise, only remote tracking branches will be updated. http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-20#l969 (No idea about that one, have seen that once before, but it's definitely not even remotely as common as the others) 4) User expects "pull" to create branches 07:25 fynn Hey, I just pulled a branch from remote, and I don't see it in "git branch" 07:25 doener fynn: if you "pull" that means "fetch this and merge it to what I have checked out" 07:25 fynn doener: hm, I just did "git pull" and it showed the new branch 07:26 fynn but I don't see it in my branches... 07:26 fynn doener: should I create that branch as a tracking branch first? 07:26 doener fynn: you're looking at "git branch -r" or "git branch -a", right? 07:26 fynn doener: yeah, I'm seeing it in origin/foo, but not local. 07:26 doener fynn: the "git fetch" should have created a remote tracking branch, as usual, not a local branch head (which would be shown by just "git branch") 07:27 fynn doener: OK, what should I do to create it locally then? 07:28 doener fynn: just the usual "git branch foo origin/foo", or to checkout at the same time: "git checkout -b foo origin/foo" or "git checkout -t origin/foo" (shortcut) http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-19#l830 (Note how my "fetch this and merge it" is actually inaccurate for just "git pull", there is no "this" and that case. I took "pulled a branch" to mean that he did "git pull <remote> <branch>", which wouldn't have created/update the remote tracking branch [or did patches for that go in? I lost track...]) 4b) User expects pull to create a branch head 09:58 araujo git pull origin <new_branch> 09:58 araujo will get me the new branch from repo right? 10:00 charon araujo: no, that will fetch *and merge* that branch 10:00 araujo charon, how to just pull? http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-19#l1152 (Note how he asked "how to just pull?", even after being told that pull isn't what he wants) 5) User possibly expecting "pull" to be able to act as "reset --hard" 21:01 aidan What do I do about this: html/config/core.php: needs update 21:02 aidan git pull (gives that) 21:02 Ilari aidan: You have uncommitted changes to that file... 21:15 aidan Ilari: how can I just pull master and overwrite any changes? http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-18#l2130 (I'm not sure about that one, "overwrite any changes" might mean "drop uncommitted changes and merge" or "just get me the remote's state, dropping my commits and uncommitted changes". Most of the time I've seen similar requests, the user wanted the latter). 6) User says "pull" but probably means "fetch" 14:08 Alien_Freak once I have a clone of a repo I know you can do a checkout tag but is there anyway to pull just the tag? http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-16#l1664 (There was no answer, thus it's hard to tell, but I guess he wanted something like: git init; git fetch --no-tags url tag <tag>; git checkout <tag> At least I'm quite sure he didn't mean "pull" as in "git pull") 7) User expecting "pull" to just do fast-forwards (or so) 13:18 ohadlevy I'm getting a merge commit message after each time i do git pull, i didnt have it before, where should I look? 13:20 charon ohadlevy: pull merges; you may just have hit lucky so far, and always had a fast-forward merge 13:20 ohadlevy charon: any way I could avoid these commits? just rebasing? its a pure RO repo http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-16#l1579 (Apparently, user was tricked by the fast-forward behaviour he experienced earlier. I don't see any solution to this, except for defaulting to fast-forward-only and requiring a --merge flag (which might imply --no-ff), but I'm likely influenced by the "git update" stuff here) 8) "reset --hard" again 20:10 roger_padactor i commited then did a pull how do i get back to my commit. the pull over wrote the files 20:11 merlin83 roger_padactor: you can't, pull == fetch + hard reset to latest commit http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-14#l2306 (Someone being told that pull is fetch + reset --hard is actually new to me. Only saw that as an expectation previously.) 9) More "git pull <remote> A:A" 19:10 _hp_ another question, how do I add the remote branch to track so I don't have to constantly do git pull origin masterA:masterA ? 19:11 Ilari _hp_: Don't use that src:dest with pull! (discussion died) http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-12#l2427 10) "pull" mistaken for "cvs update" 07:25 Avrem how do I use "git pull" to do something like what "cvs update" does ? 07:25 Avrem which is, replaces files I've deleted 07:25 Avrem from that from the central repository 07:30 omega I'm not sure, but can't you git checkout <deleted files> to get them back? http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-10-11#l545 (This adds a new twist to the "scm update" stuff, although svn/hg don't seem to have "restore individual files" in their "update" command, so this might be cvs-only. But it's so long since I used cvs, I don't even know whether this is correct. But it somehow got me thinking about how "update" is actually also "downgrade" in svn/hg, something git does via "checkout" [which happens to make more sense to me]. And I think it shows how "git pull" is taken to mean "update", even when ignoring the special behaviour described here. It's not taken to mean "merge this", but just "update to upstream"). So that's ten days of #git. I left out a bunch of duplications (most were "pull == fetch", "pull == update" and "pull to update non-checked-out branch"). Björn -- 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