On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Thomas Rast wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > While everyone is busy in two other UI threads, I figured I might as > > well toss up another (probably) controversial topic. > > > > Especially on IRC, we see many people who are some combination of > > misunderstanding, misusing or overusing git-pull. I figure this is > > the result of several factors, notably > > > > a) pull/push are not symmetric, > > In a certain sense they are; they both update the branches local to one > repository with the data from the other repository. In this sense, fetch > is the oddity in that it doesn't update any repository's own branches, but > just the local information about other repositories' branches. BTW, shouldn't fetch be deprecated in favour of git remote update ? (this may require adding some features to git remote update, but you get the idea) Mike -- 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