Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

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On 11/15/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> 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.

You mean

      git merge git://repo.com/time_machine.git#branch

don't you (perhaps with 'master' as default branch)?

perhaps with remote 'HEAD' as default branch?

Santi
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