On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Yes. The current "merge" started its life as Linus's porcelain > (we did not have fetch and pull infrastructure back then) but > quickly has become just a helper for pull to produce a merge > commit. If anybody thinks its UI is good as a general end-user > level command, there is a need for "head examination". If you mean "git merge" it sure needs to be brought forward. It can't be clearer than: git-merge the_other_branch or git-merge git://repo.com/time_machine.git to instantaneously understand what is going on. 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