Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> So 'git merge' is 'git merge @{upstream}' instead of 'git merge -h';
> it's better to do something useful.
I totally agree -- this would be a good change[*] -- but this suggestion
has been made before, and always gets shot down for vaguely silly
reasons...
I often do "git fetch; <see what changed upstream>; git pull". I think
this is probably not a rare pattern, when one is working with other
people via a shared upstream.
The git-pull is obviously slightly risky because another change could
have happened after the fetch, but I use that instead of "git-merge"
because git-pull's defaults make it very convenient ... and _usually_
there's no issue... If git-merge had proper defaults (as you suggest),
it would be exactly as convenient as git-pull (and _less_ dangerous), so
I'd use that instead.
[and, no, saying "you can add an alias!" is not a reasonable answer --
git should be convenient by default!]
-Miles
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