Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

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Junio C Hamano escreveu:
FWIW, I regularly mess up with the differences between fetching,
pulling and merging.  In particular, having to do a two step process
to get remote changes in,

  git pull url-to-server master:master
     ..error message about not being a fast-forward..

  git pull --update-head-ok url-to-server master:master
     ..still an error message about update not being a fast-forward..

      (sigh)

Sigh indeed.

Why don't you do the simple and obvious

	git pull url master

It is not all evident from the git-pull man-page that this is the obvious and most common usage.

or "git pull url" if you already know the master is the branch
you are interested in.

Because I usually replace verbose commands with shortcuts only when I understand exactly what the shortcut is.

To me it's very unlogical that

  master:current-branch

doesn't work, but

  master:

does work, and does what I'd expect

  master:current-branch

to do. Interestingly, doing

  pull ..url.. master:HEAD

also doesn't merge into the current branch, but rather creates a bogus refs/heads/HEAD

I use the remote:local syntax, because I started using GIT in scripted compiles from copied branches of remote repositories. There the explicit remote:local statements are necessary because there is no default branch.

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