Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ... > > But I would be unhappy if I have to be the one to hear complaints from > newbies who are now forced to add an obscure option to his "git pull" in > the second case. > > So this is not so cut-and-dried from the usability point of view as you > seem to think. I understand your reasoning for the second case, and the init/pull sequence is something I used to do too. Thanks for the explanations. Regarding this init/pull sequence: it might be nice to print something like: Merging with an empty tree, 'git clone' intended ? I see more and more such messages when using various git commands, it helps a lot. -- aghiles -- 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